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Elizabeth Bishop

1911 - 1979

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Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Dwight Garner argued in 2018 that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Bishop is the 1,824th most popular writer (down from 1,552nd in 2019), the 2,679th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,913th in 2019) and the 216th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 1,824 out of 7,302. Before her are Petros Markaris, Alexander Grin, Ruan Ji, Oliver Goldsmith, Peter Shaffer, and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi. After her are Abbot Oliba, Anthony Trollope, Valery Bryusov, Philip José Farmer, Al-Hariri of Basra, and Lucinda Riley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 99. Before her are Mark Bernes, Prince Carl Bernadotte, Viktor Barna, Paul Goodman, Jehan Alain, and Zenkō Suzuki. After her are Maureen O'Sullivan, Teddy Kollek, Maria Reiter, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Klára Dán von Neumann, and Andor Lilienthal. Among people deceased in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 72. Before her are Ali Hassan Salameh, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Dhyan Chand, Charles Mingus, and Stein Rokkan. After her are Darryl F. Zanuck, Victoria Ocampo, Henrich Focke, Carlo Abarth, Joseph Kessel, and Dirk Stikker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 2,679 out of 20,380. Before her are James Newton Howard (1951), Scott McKenzie (1939), David Crosby (1941), Yaphet Kotto (1939), David Farragut (1801), and George Antheil (1900). After her are Frances Conroy (1953), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Alan Menken (1949), Philip José Farmer (1918), and David Schwimmer (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 216. Before her are Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Jeffery Deaver (1950), Upton Sinclair (1878), William Carlos Williams (1883), Stephen Crane (1871), and Paul Goodman (1911). After her are Philip José Farmer (1918), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), Richard Ford (1944), and Siri Hustvedt (1955).

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