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Emma Lazarus

1849 - 1887

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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus was involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled antisemitic pogroms in eastern Europe, and she saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emma Lazarus is the 4,057th most popular writer (down from 3,576th in 2019), the 5,962nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,599th in 2019) and the 456th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Emma Lazarus ranks 4,057 out of 7,302. Before her are Gary Chapman, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Emmy Hennings, Andrejs Pumpurs, Bret Harte, and Bohuslav Balbín. After her are Marcel Jouhandeau, Shinichi Hoshi, Hồ Xuân Hương, Paul Fort, Adam Naruszewicz, and Gene Wolfe.

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Among people born in 1849, Emma Lazarus ranks 75. Before her are Ferdinand Brunetière, Pedro Montt, Jacob Riis, Carl Fredrik Hill, Emil Zuckerkandl, and Charles F. Brush. After her are Gerhard Munthe, N. E. Brown, Christian Rohlfs, Józef Chełmoński, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Prosper-René Blondlot. Among people deceased in 1887, Emma Lazarus ranks 43. Before her are Joseph Whitworth, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, August Friedrich Pott, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Mikhail Katkov. After her are Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Sarah Yorke Jackson, John Taylor, Luigi Jacobini, and Julius von Haast.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma Lazarus ranks 5,962 out of 20,380. Before her are Frank Rosenblatt (1928), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), Jason White (1973), Donella Meadows (1941), Bret Harte (1836), and Jennifer Carpenter (1979). After her are Paul Gilbert (1966), Charles Daniels (1885), Edmund Szoka (1927), Donny Hathaway (1945), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), and Florence R. Sabin (1871).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Emma Lazarus ranks 456. Before her are Syd Field (1935), Ralph Ellison (1914), Og Mandino (1923), Daniel Silva (1960), Gary Chapman (1938), and Bret Harte (1836). After her are Gene Wolfe (1931), Leigh Brackett (1915), Laura Bridgman (1829), Mark Frost (1953), Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), and Louis Bromfield (1896).

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