WRITER

Eva Kotchever

1891 - 1943

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Eva Kotchever (1891 – 19 December 1943), known also as Eve Adams or Eve Addams, born as Chawa Złoczower, was a Polish-Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of Lesbian Love and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly lesbian literary salon in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, called Eve's Hangout. It closed after Eva was convicted and jailed for obscenity and disorderly conduct, which resulted in her deportation to Poland in 1927. She was later arrested in France in 1943 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 17 December, where she was murdered two days later on 19 December. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eva Kotchever is the 4,339th most popular writer (up from 5,470th in 2019), the 908th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,097th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among writers, Eva Kotchever ranks 4,339 out of 7,302. Before her are Philippa Gregory, Yuri Bondarev, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Jungk, Joss Whedon, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. After her are Eudora Welty, Giuseppe Adami, Astrid Ivask, John Lyly, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, and Eduard von Keyserling.

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Among people born in 1891, Eva Kotchever ranks 200. Before her are Zoltán Mechlovits, Franz Babinger, Mary Browne, Alexander Gorbatov, Anatoly Pepelyayev, and Emil Julius Gumbel. After her are Otilio Ulate Blanco, Mae Busch, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Karl Allmendinger, Ernest Leonard Johnson, and Harry Cohn. Among people deceased in 1943, Eva Kotchever ranks 161. Before her are Nikolai Avksentiev, George Hillyard, Harry Baur, Ioannis Persakis, Radclyffe Hall, and Walter Thiel. After her are Heinrich Zimmer, Maurice Hemelsoet, Estella Agsteribbe, Attila Petschauer, Adolf Urban, and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eva Kotchever ranks 908 out of 1,694. Before her are Szymon Czechowicz (1689), Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879), Arno Holz (1863), Szymon Goldberg (1909), Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), and Piotr Szulkin (1950). After her are Wanda Jakubowska (1907), Jacob Talmon (1916), Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Karl Decker (1897), Anna Dymna (1951), and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Eva Kotchever ranks 102. Before her are Jan Kott (1914), Jurek Becker (1937), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), Willibald Alexis (1798), and Arno Holz (1863). After her are Florian Ceynowa (1817), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), Karl von Holtei (1798), Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905), and Łukasz Górnicki (1527).

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