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Ellen Glasgow

1873 - 1945

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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ellen Glasgow is the 6,338th most popular writer (up from 6,468th in 2019), the 11,692nd most popular biography from United States (up from 12,118th in 2019) and the 846th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ellen Glasgow ranks 6,338 out of 7,302. Before her are Leïla Slimani, Gay Talese, Khushwant Singh, Alastair Reynolds, Malcolm Gladwell, and Tsai Chih-chung. After her are George Alec Effinger, Ananda Devi, Alvah Bessie, Brian Jacques, Barry Unsworth, and Cynthia Ozick.

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Among people born in 1873, Ellen Glasgow ranks 202. Before her are Frederick Merriman, Charles Clary, Herbert Roper Barrett, Dmitry Ushakov, Dorothy Richardson, and Robert Wrenn. After her are Sara Josephine Baker, Alfred Bowerman, John W. Davis, Leo Amery, Louisa Garrett Anderson, and Harry Solter. Among people deceased in 1945, Ellen Glasgow ranks 350. Before her are Tom Taylor, Hiram Johnson, Charles Sands, Willis Augustus Lee, Mark Sandrich, and Joe Hunt. After her are Sara Josephine Baker, Robert Benchley, Toon Oprinsen, Albert Arnheiter, Nikolai Khmelyov, and Eoin MacNeill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Glasgow ranks 11,694 out of 20,380. Before her are Margaret Lindsay (1910), David Gates (1940), Louise Ritter (1958), Betsy DeVos (1958), Lamar Hunt (1932), and David Darling (1941). After her are Scott Fahlman (1948), George Alec Effinger (1947), Bob Kulick (1950), Lucy Shapiro (1940), Sonny Fortune (1939), and Grady Booch (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ellen Glasgow ranks 846. Before her are Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896), Stephen Vincent Benét (1898), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), Albert Maltz (1908), Richard Wilbur (1921), and Gay Talese (1932). After her are George Alec Effinger (1947), Alvah Bessie (1904), Cynthia Ozick (1928), Gregory S. Paul (1954), Thomas Beatie (1974), and Helen Gurley Brown (1922).

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