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Susan Brownmiller

1935 - 2025

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Susan Brownmiller (born Susan Warhaftig; February 15, 1935 – May 24, 2025) was an American journalist, author and feminist activist, best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which was selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Susan Brownmiller is the 3,505th most popular writer (up from 4,769th in 2019), the 5,044th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,524th in 2019) and the 392nd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Susan Brownmiller ranks 3,505 out of 7,302Before her are Édouard Drumont, Tariq Ali, Subh-i-Azal, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. After her are Kir Bulychev, Corippus, Immanuel Velikovsky, John Winthrop, Richard Hakluyt, and Liza Marklund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Susan Brownmiller ranks 231Before her are Armando Picchi, Dragan Tomić, Fortunato Baldelli, Julio Jaramillo, Percy Adlon, and Eulogio Martínez. After her are Željko Matuš, Fernando del Paso, Giovanna Ralli, Diahann Carroll, Ramón Chao, and Rusty Schweickart. Among people deceased in 2025, Susan Brownmiller ranks 164Before her are Sandra Harding, Jean Tiberi, Roy Thomas Baker, Braulio Musso, Peter Jason, and Richard Norton. After her are Bernard Lacombe, Al Foster, L. J. Smith, Manolo el del bombo, Manoj Kumar, and Sırrı Süreyya Önder.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susan Brownmiller ranks 5,044 out of 20,380Before her are Michael S. Hart (1947), Cat Power (1972), Albert Brooks (1947), Alexander H. Stephens (1812), Margaret Sullavan (1909), and Peggy Whitson (1960). After her are Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Edwin Drake (1819), Steve James (1952), Roy E. Disney (1930), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), and Don Adams (1923).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Susan Brownmiller ranks 392Before her are Maurice Sendak (1928), Lillian Hellman (1905), Wallace Stevens (1879), Gregory Corso (1930), Lawrence Block (1938), and H.D. (1886). After her are Fanny Crosby (1820), Richard Yates (1926), Glen Cook (1944), Lois Lowry (1937), Jonathan Littell (1967), and Robert McKee (1941).