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Roxane Gay

1974 - Today

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Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English, where she was tenured. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Roxane Gay is the 7,383rd most popular writer (down from 7,119th in 2024), the 18,574th most popular biography from United States (down from 16,759th in 2019) and the 1,218th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Roxane Gay ranks 7,383 out of 7,302. Before her are Anita Sarkeesian, Annemarie Jacir, Jesmyn Ward, Ann Brashares, Sanjay Gupta, and Chetan Bhagat. After her are Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Zeina Abirached, Gwen Ifill, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Benedict Wells, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Among people born in 1974, Roxane Gay ranks 1,198. Before her are Hiroaki Tajima, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Konstantin Sakaev, Christopher Koskei, Andrejs Štolcers, and Chetan Bhagat. After her are Patrice Halgand, Pornchai Thongburan, Tao Luna, Ibrahim Suwayed, Mária Kolíková, and Tom Thacker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roxane Gay ranks 18,582 out of 20,380. Before her are Cedric Bixler-Zavala (1974), Sanjay Gupta (1969), Anna Hall (2001), Rider Strong (1979), Taj Gibson (1985), and Nina Paley (1968). After her are Tony Rombola (1964), David Collins (1969), Bryce Davison (1986), Christian Convery (2009), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (1973), and Brenda K. Starr (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Roxane Gay ranks 1,218. Before her are David Magee (1962), James Frey (1969), Richard Appel (1963), Jesmyn Ward (1977), Ann Brashares (1967), and Sanjay Gupta (1969). After her are Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (1973), Gwen Ifill (1955), Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1973), Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975), Becky Chambers (1985), and Jacqueline Woodson (1963).

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