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Bayard Taylor

1825 - 1878

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Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bayard Taylor has received more than 153,882 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bayard Taylor is the 6,678th most popular writer (down from 6,006th in 2019), the 13,339th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,296th in 2019) and the 978th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Story of Kennett
2018
A Journey to Central Africa: Or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the ..
Description and travel, Africa, central, description and travel, Africa, central, social conditions
1854
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales from Home
2018
Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire
Description and travel, Gold discoveries, Voyages to the Pacific coast
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century. Eldorado (1850) consists of Taylor's rewritten dispatches to his paper. Volume 2 tells of the 1849 elections, horseback tours of the Sierras, gold camps on the Mokelumne River, analysis of the 1849 overland emigration, San Francisco social and cultural life, and a return to the East with stops in Guadalajara, Mazatlàn, Mexico City, Popcateptel, and Vera Cruz. Thomas Butler King's official report on California, 22 March 1850, is printed as an appendix.
1850
The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain
Description and travel, Travel
1854
Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff
Description and travel, Europe, Travel
1846

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bayard Taylor ranks 6,678 out of 7,302. Before him are James Kelman, Wladimir Kaminer, Gertrude Atherton, Ed Bradley, Ann Scott, and Pat Cadigan. After him are Julia Phillips, Al Jean, DBC Pierre, Helle Helle, Joseph Finder, and Clemence Dane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Bayard Taylor ranks 92. Before him are Antoinette Brown Blackwell, R. D. Blackmore, Benjamin Mountfort, Frances Harper, Francis James Child, and Henry Heth. After him are William Spottiswoode, Newton Booth, and Julius Kühn. Among people deceased in 1878, Bayard Taylor ranks 75. Before him are José María Medina, George Gilbert Scott, Gideon Welles, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Benjamin Bonneville, and Charles Magill Conrad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bayard Taylor ranks 13,339 out of 20,380. Before him are Kyle Secor (1957), Courtney Ford (1978), Brooklyn Decker (1987), Camila Mendes (1994), Béla Fleck (1958), and Dorothy Fields (1904). After him are Julia Phillips (1944), Peter Welch (1947), Gary Valentine (1961), Dick Van Arsdale (1943), Marguerite Churchill (1910), and Joan Blackman (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bayard Taylor ranks 978. Before him are Walter Mosley (1952), Tim Kring (1957), Leonard Maltin (1950), Gertrude Atherton (1857), Ed Bradley (1941), and Pat Cadigan (1953). After him are Julia Phillips (1944), Al Jean (1961), Joseph Finder (1958), Jill Abramson (1954), Anthony E. Zuiker (1968), and William Safire (1929).

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