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Josephine Diebitsch Peary

1863 - 1955

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Josephine Cecilia Peary (née Diebitsch; May 22, 1863 – December 19, 1955) was an American author and arctic explorer. She was the wife of Robert Peary, who claimed to be the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josephine Diebitsch Peary is the 4,440th most popular writer (down from 4,239th in 2019), the 6,610th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,618th in 2019) and the 499th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Josephine Diebitsch Peary ranks 4,440 out of 7,302Before her are Orhan Kemal, Gloria Fuertes, Ippolito Nievo, Vicente Espinel, Dmitry Grigorovich, and Kathy Acker. After her are Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joe Eszterhas, Justine Siegemund, Nicholas Pileggi, Yōko Ogawa, and Vladislav Khodasevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Josephine Diebitsch Peary ranks 136Before her are Gottlieb von Jagow, Arno Holz, Zabel Sibil Asadour, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Axel Thue, and Richard Wettstein. After her are Aleksandr Golovin, Sergey Oldenburg, Peider Lansel, André Blondel, W. W. Jacobs, and Ellen Churchill Semple. Among people deceased in 1955, Josephine Diebitsch Peary ranks 124Before her are Constance Collier, Mary McLeod Bethune, Leonardus Nardus, James Jones, Arthur Shaw, and Louis Leon Thurstone. After her are Johan Jarlén, James Agee, Fumio Hayasaka, Bill Vukovich, Constantin Argetoianu, and Johannes de Jong.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Josephine Diebitsch Peary ranks 6,611 out of 20,380Before her are Frederick C. Weyand (1916), Julius Katchen (1926), Kathy Acker (1947), Metacomet (1639), Jim Jordan (1964), and Noodles (1963). After her are Dorothy Gish (1898), Nicky Hayden (1981), Penelope Ann Miller (1964), Scott Eastwood (1986), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), and John Mellencamp (1951).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Josephine Diebitsch Peary ranks 499Before her are Betty Mahmoody (1945), Irving Wallace (1916), Diane Ackerman (1948), James Salter (1925), Connie Willis (1945), and Kathy Acker (1947). After her are Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), Diane Disney Miller (1933), Lloyd Alexander (1924), Tracy Chevalier (1962), and C. J. Cherryh (1942).