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Ida Tarbell

1857 - 1944

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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism. Born in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was first published as a series of articles in McClure's from 1902 to 1904. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ida Tarbell is the 916th most popular writer (up from 1,206th in 2019), the 1,277th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,411th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Ida Tarbell ranks 916 out of 7,302. Before her are Adunis, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, H. Rider Haggard, Italo Svevo, Mercè Rodoreda, and MacKenzie Scott. After her are Etty Hillesum, Christopher Tolkien, Joseph Campbell, Rubén Darío, Artemidorus, and John Jacob Astor IV.

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Among people born in 1857, Ida Tarbell ranks 32. Before her are Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Georg Michaelis, Joseph Babinski, Thorstein Veblen, and Aleksandr Lyapunov. After her are A. E. Waite, Karl Pearson, Cécile Chaminade, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, George Gissing, and Christian Michelsen. Among people deceased in 1944, Ida Tarbell ranks 58. Before her are Eduard Dietl, Nikolai Vatutin, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Leo Baekeland. After her are Cécile Chaminade, Jakob von Uexküll, Jean Giraudoux, Mildred Harris, Hans-Valentin Hube, and Kasturba Gandhi.

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Among people born in United States, Ida Tarbell ranks 1,277 out of 20,380. Before her are Billy Joel (1949), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Stan Getz (1927), John Belushi (1949), and MacKenzie Scott (1970). After her are Frank Marshall (1946), William Kemmler (1860), Rudy Giuliani (1944), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Michelle Obama (1964), and Lita Grey (1908).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ida Tarbell ranks 98. Before her are Stephen Covey (1932), Sam Shepard (1943), Thomas Harris (1940), Robert E. Howard (1906), Neale Donald Walsch (1943), and MacKenzie Scott (1970). After her are Joseph Campbell (1904), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Daniel Keyes (1927), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Virginia Satir (1916), and Horatio Alger (1832).

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