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Bel Kaufman

1911 - 2014

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Bella Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bel Kaufman is the 4,397th most popular writer (down from 4,251st in 2019), the 4,353rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,189th in 2019) and the 264th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bel Kaufman ranks 4,397 out of 7,302. Before her are Michel-Jean Sedaine, Virginie Ancelot, Milena Rudnytska, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Otar Chiladze, and Pierre Pithou. After her are Kim Iryeop, Antonio Fogazzaro, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Konrad von Würzburg, Penelope Delta, and Jakob Balde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Bel Kaufman ranks 231. Before her are Szilárd Bogdánffy, Reidar Andersen, José Augusto Brandão, Nagarjun, Luís Mesquita de Oliveira, and Hédi Amara Nouira. After her are Masayuki Mori, Reg Parnell, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Michel Pécheux, Kick Smit, and Matthias Kaburek. Among people deceased in 2014, Bel Kaufman ranks 290. Before her are China Zorrilla, Ruby Dee, Cornell Borchers, Gyula Török, Sarah Marshall, and Ichirō Nagai. After her are Mary F. Lyon, Arnoldo Foà, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, William H. Dana, Aurelio Milani, and Eugene Dynkin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bel Kaufman ranks 4,355 out of 7,253. Before her are Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Marco Rose (1976), Carl Goßler (1885), Arthur Tell Schwab (1896), Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1627), and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854). After her are Birgit Fischer (1962), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824), Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794), and Josef Bradl (1918).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bel Kaufman ranks 264. Before her are James Krüss (1926), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Robert Jungk (1913), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), and Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916). After her are Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Kito Lorenc (1938), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Uwe Timm (1940), and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750).

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