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Amiri Baraka

1934 - 2014

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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amiri Baraka has received more than 1,223,770 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Amiri Baraka is the 4,385th most popular writer (down from 4,205th in 2019), the 6,099th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,922nd in 2019) and the 497th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amiri Baraka ranks 4,385 out of 5,755. Before him are Gregório de Matos, Carl Sternheim, Diane di Prima, Theodore Roszak, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, and Charlaine Harris. After him are Wang Guowei, Anne Bradstreet, Nuruddin Farah, Roberto Juarroz, Robertson Davies, and Eduardo Pondal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Amiri Baraka ranks 304. Before him are Zaid ibn Shaker, Kamala Surayya, Diane di Prima, Galina Bystrova, Héctor De Bourgoing, and Lyudmila Shevtsova. After him are Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Gergely Kulcsár, Tevfik Kış, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Jayakanthan, and Yuri Vizbor. Among people deceased in 2014, Amiri Baraka ranks 268. Before him are Roger Lloyd-Pack, Frans van der Lugt, Peter Scholl-Latour, Cheo Feliciano, Bobby Womack, and Simón Díaz. After him are Marian Seldes, György Lázár, Joseph Sargent, Frankie Knuckles, Atef Ebeid, and Richard Hoggart.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amiri Baraka ranks 6,099 out of 18,182. Before him are Shirley Chisholm (1924), Frederick Terman (1900), Topher Grace (1978), Bob Hite (1943), Ally Sheedy (1962), and Charlaine Harris (1951). After him are Carter Burwell (1954), Andy Griffith (1926), Julie Kavner (1950), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Karch Kiraly (1960), and Clarence Williams III (1939).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Amiri Baraka ranks 497. Before him are Chris Van Allsburg (1949), Tabitha King (1949), Candy Barr (1935), Diane di Prima (1934), Theodore Roszak (1933), and Charlaine Harris (1951). After him are Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902), Larry Collins (1929), Horatio Alger (1832), Robert B. Parker (1932), Louis Bromfield (1896), and Irving Wallace (1916).

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