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Nellie Bly

1864 - 1922

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Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2024). Nellie Bly is the 1,007th most popular writer (down from 940th in 2024), the 1,424th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the 112th most popular American Writer.

Nellie Bly was a journalist who went undercover to expose the terrible conditions in mental hospitals in the late 1800s. She wrote a book about her experience called Ten Days in a Mad-House.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Nellie Bly ranks 1,007 out of 7,302. Before her are Andrew of Crete, Agathon, Bettina von Arnim, Ouyang Xiu, E. M. Forster, and Henri Troyat. After her are Ed Bradley, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dalton Trumbo, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Khachatur Abovian, and André Bazin.

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Among people born in 1864, Nellie Bly ranks 32. Before her are Jules Renard, Eugen d'Albert, Frank Wedekind, Rudolf Kjellén, Jakob von Uexküll, and Branislav Nušić. After her are Princess Zorka of Montenegro, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Li Yuanhong, Alfred Redl, Leonard Hobhouse, and Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. Among people deceased in 1922, Nellie Bly ranks 26. Before her are Andrey Markov, Paul Deschanel, Michael Collins, Léon Bonnat, Rudolf Kjellén, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia. After her are Gabriel Narutowicz, Camille Jordan, Arthur Nikisch, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Mori Ōgai, and Henri Désiré Landru.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nellie Bly ranks 1,424 out of NaN. Before her are Matt Groening (1954), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), Mae West (1893), Sam Jones (1933), Jeremy Renner (1971), and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917). After her are Ed Bradley (1941), Don Cherry (1936), Cass Elliot (1941), Dalton Trumbo (1905), Pat Carroll (1927), and Alonzo Church (1903).

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Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, Nellie Bly ranks 112. Before her are Cormac McCarthy (1933), Ambrose Bierce (1842), Raymond Carver (1938), Sherwood Anderson (1876), Thomas Wolfe (1900), and John Grisham (1955). After her are Ed Bradley (1941), Dalton Trumbo (1905), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), and William Gibson (1948).

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