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Bell hooks

1952 - 2021

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Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and class. She used the lower-case spelling of her name to decenter herself and draw attention to her work instead. The focus of hooks' writing was to explore the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bell hooks is the 598th most popular writer (up from 3,461st in 2019), the 752nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,426th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Bell hooks ranks 598 out of 7,302. Before her are Georges Perec, Antoine François Prévost, Denis of Portugal, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Su Shi, and Robert Burns. After her are Gustav Meyrink, Paul Lafargue, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alfred de Musset, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ausonius.

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Among people born in 1952, Bell hooks ranks 28. Before her are Stephen Lang, Roger Milla, Tomislav Nikolić, Francis Fukuyama, Sylvia Kristel, and Isabella Rossellini. After her are Jeff Goldblum, Hun Sen, Merrick Garland, Sammo Hung, Anneliese Michel, and Gary Moore. Among people deceased in 2021, Bell hooks ranks 28. Before her are Isamu Akasaki, Captain Tom, Richard R. Ernst, Jacques Rogge, Robert Downey Sr., and Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein. After her are Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Charlie Watts, Hans Küng, Steven Weinberg, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Edmond H. Fischer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bell hooks ranks 752 out of 20,380. Before her are James Earl Jones (1931), John Cazale (1935), Martin Cooper (1928), Charles Goodyear (1800), Mike Pence (1959), and William G. Morgan (1870). After her are Kip Thorne (1940), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Hugh Everett III (1930), Diana Ross (1944), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887).

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Among writers born in United States, Bell hooks ranks 65. Before her are Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Tom Clancy (1947), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Napoleon Hill (1883), Maya Angelou (1928), and Washington Irving (1783). After her are Ellen G. White (1827), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Patricia Highsmith (1921), Allen Ginsberg (1926), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811).

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