WRITER

Allen Ginsberg

1926 - 1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allen Ginsberg has received more than 7,434,548 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Allen Ginsberg is the 585th most popular writer (down from 501st in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from United States (down from 513th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Writer.

Allen Ginsberg is most famous for his poem "Howl" and his involvement in the Beat Generation.

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  • 7.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Allen Ginsberg ranks 585 out of 7,302. Before him are Cassiodorus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Osip Mandelstam, Enid Blyton, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Samuel Butler. After him are Su Shi, Wang Wei, Vasubandhu, Bruno Schulz, D. H. Lawrence, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Allen Ginsberg ranks 33. Before him are Donald A. Glaser, Ivan Illich, Leopoldo Galtieri, George Habash, John Coltrane, and Beji Caid Essebsi. After him are Tsung-Dao Lee, Paul Berg, Harper Lee, Irwin Rose, Murray Rothbard, and Valdas Adamkus. Among people deceased in 1997, Allen Ginsberg ranks 24. Before him are Chaim Herzog, Sviatoslav Richter, Hans Eysenck, William S. Burroughs, Fred Zinnemann, and Isaiah Berlin. After him are Bảo Đại, Helenio Herrera, Dodi Fayed, Burgess Meredith, Aldo Rossi, and Clyde Tombaugh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Ginsberg ranks 598 out of 20,380. Before him are James Baldwin (1924), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Robert Kardashian (1944), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), and Jack Kilby (1923). After him are Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Art Garfunkel (1941), Goldie Hawn (1945), Ellen G. White (1827), and Ice-T (1958).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Allen Ginsberg ranks 57. Before him are Richard Bach (1936), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), T. S. Eliot (1888), Sidney Sheldon (1917), William S. Burroughs (1914), and James Baldwin (1924). After him are Ellen G. White (1827), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Napoleon Hill (1883), John Irving (1942), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875).

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