WRITER

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 1,211,271 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Amiri Baraka is the 4,559th most popular writer (down from 4,372nd in 2019), the 6,149th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,086th in 2019) and the 492nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The baptism & The toilet
1966
Dutchman
1967
Black music
African Americans, History and criticism, Music
1967
Four Black revolutionary plays
Politics and government, Drama, Revolutionary literature
1969
Blues people
History and criticism, Negroes, Negro music
1963
The system of Dante's hell
1965

Page views of Amiri Barakas by language

Over the past year Amiri Baraka has had the most page views in the with 134,265 views, followed by French (5,634), and German (5,101). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (89.03%), Basque (84.57%), and Swedish (79.10%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amiri Baraka ranks 4,559 out of 7,302. Before him are Runer Jonsson, Charles Simic, Philippe Hériat, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Jayakanthan, and Birgitta Trotzig. After him are Francis de Miomandre, Hadiya Davletshina, Mykhaylo Semenko, Elin Wägner, Ayşe Kulin, and Iakob Gogebashvili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Amiri Baraka ranks 324. Before him are Lyudmila Shevtsova, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Alan Bennett, Kamala Surayya, Tonina Torrielli, and Jayakanthan. After him are Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Oğuz Atay, May-Louise Flodin, Gotlib, and Mahmut Atalay. Among people deceased in 2014, Amiri Baraka ranks 275. Before him are Helena Rakoczy, Richard N. Frye, Stefan Bozhkov, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Jeremy Thorpe, and Warren Clarke. After him are Zbigniew Messner, Åke Johansson, Joep Lange, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Klas Ingesson, and Gordon Willis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amiri Baraka ranks 6,149 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Johnston (1894), Liao Zhongkai (1877), Norris Bradbury (1909), Neal McDonough (1966), Talisa Soto (1967), and John Cregan (1878). After him are Michael Beck (1949), Johnny Hayes (1886), Philip Bailey (1951), Jimmy Cobb (1929), Graham Allison (1940), and Hector Dyer (1910).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Amiri Baraka ranks 492. Before him are E. E. Smith (1890), Timothy Zahn (1951), Norman Spinrad (1940), Russell Kirk (1918), Sandra Brown (1948), and David Mamet (1947). After him are Neal Stephenson (1959), Jack Canfield (1944), Robert Greene (1959), Robert Richardson (1955), Camille Paglia (1947), and Art Buchwald (1925).

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