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Siri Hustvedt

1955 - Today

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Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), and Memories of the Future (2019). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Siri Hustvedt is the 1,878th most popular writer (up from 2,154th in 2019), the 2,751st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,695th in 2019) and the 222nd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Siri Hustvedt ranks 1,878 out of 7,302Before her are Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Miguel Hernández, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Masaoka Shiki, and Zinaida Gippius. After her are Hugh Lofting, Tonino Guerra, Tristan Corbière, Chūya Nakahara, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Siri Hustvedt ranks 109Before her are Big Van Vader, Fernando Meirelles, Hans-Peter Briegel, Jeff Daniels, Ángela Molina, and Tanya Roberts. After her are Claudio Gugerotti, Horacio Pagani, Azar Nafisi, Ron Johnson, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Maria Shriver.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Siri Hustvedt ranks 2,751 out of 20,380Before her are Paul Revere (1735), Alfred Vail (1807), Virginia Cherrill (1908), Robert Stroud (1890), Thomas Watson Jr. (1914), and Ray Price (1926). After her are Phil Murphy (1957), Brian Kemp (1963), Wilma Rudolph (1940), Richard Pryor (1940), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), and Elizabeth Peña (1959).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Siri Hustvedt ranks 222Before her are Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Philip José Farmer (1918), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), and Richard Ford (1944). After her are Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), Shirley Jackson (1916), Frederik Pohl (1919), E. E. Cummings (1894), John Barth (1930), and Nelson Algren (1909).