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Bret Harte

1836 - 1902

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Bret Harte ( HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches. Harte moved from California to the eastern U.S. and later to Europe. He incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been those most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bret Harte is the 4,055th most popular writer (down from 4,049th in 2019), the 5,960th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,310th in 2019) and the 455th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Bret Harte ranks 4,055 out of 7,302. Before him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Zsigmond Móricz, Gary Chapman, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Emmy Hennings, and Andrejs Pumpurs. After him are Bohuslav Balbín, Emma Lazarus, Marcel Jouhandeau, Shinichi Hoshi, Hồ Xuân Hương, and Paul Fort.

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Among people born in 1836, Bret Harte ranks 65. Before him are Camillo Boito, Harry Rosenbusch, Alfred Grandidier, Ernst von Bergmann, W. S. Gilbert, and Robert Swinhoe. After him are Michał Elwiro Andriolli, John W. Foster, Émile Étienne Guimet, Ferdinand Monoyer, Jay Gould, and Emil Hartmann. Among people deceased in 1902, Bret Harte ranks 55. Before him are Eduard von Toll, Aisha Taymur, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Salomon Jadassohn, and Andrejs Pumpurs. After him are Gleb Uspensky, Saigō Jūdō, John Wesley Powell, Lőrinc Schlauch, Clémence Royer, and Ludwig von Brenner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bret Harte ranks 5,960 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin MacLeod (1972), Bob Crane (1928), Frank Rosenblatt (1928), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), Jason White (1973), and Donella Meadows (1941). After him are Jennifer Carpenter (1979), Emma Lazarus (1849), Paul Gilbert (1966), Charles Daniels (1885), Edmund Szoka (1927), and Donny Hathaway (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bret Harte ranks 455. Before him are Elizabeth Strout (1956), Syd Field (1935), Ralph Ellison (1914), Og Mandino (1923), Daniel Silva (1960), and Gary Chapman (1938). After him are Emma Lazarus (1849), Gene Wolfe (1931), Leigh Brackett (1915), Laura Bridgman (1829), Mark Frost (1953), and Lilian Jackson Braun (1913).

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