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Jean Webster

1876 - 1916

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Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916), an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Webster is the 1,153rd most popular writer (down from 998th in 2019), the 1,634th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,141st in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Writer.

Jean Webster is most famous for her novel "Daddy-Long-Legs" which was published in 1912.

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Among writers, Jean Webster ranks 1,153 out of 7,302. Before her are Jussi Adler-Olsen, Chiara Lubich, Assia Djebar, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Frans Sammut, and Jean-François Marmontel. After her are Charles Simic, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Gottfried Keller, P. G. Wodehouse, and Vladimir Bartol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Jean Webster ranks 43. Before her are Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Sherwood Anderson, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Ivan Cankar, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Tatyana Afanasyeva. After her are Robert Michels, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Natalie Clifford Barney, Ivan Bilibin, and Ziya Gökalp. Among people deceased in 1916, Jean Webster ranks 39. Before her are Percival Lowell, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Rubén Darío, Gaston Maspero, and Victoriano Huerta. After her are Gérard Encausse, Hugo Münsterberg, Julius Fučík, Pierre Duhem, Théodule-Armand Ribot, and Oskar Backlund.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jean Webster ranks 1,634 out of 20,380. Before her are Kelly McGillis (1957), Robert Fogel (1926), Dick Fosbury (1947), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Bessie Smith (1894), and Maria Mitchell (1818). After her are John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Barry Levinson (1942), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Dave Brubeck (1920), and Aileen Wuornos (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jean Webster ranks 131. Before her are Roger Zelazny (1937), Jeff Lindsay (1952), John Cheever (1912), Will Durant (1885), Walter Lippmann (1889), and John Dickson Carr (1906). After her are Irving Stone (1903), Danielle Steel (1947), Anne Rice (1941), Donna Leon (1942), Michael Connelly (1956), and Marshall Rosenberg (1934).

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