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Camille Paglia

1947 - Today

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Camille Anna Paglia (; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in 2024. She is critical of many aspects of modern culture and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camille Paglia has received more than 3,127,198 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Camille Paglia is the 4,599th most popular writer (down from 3,947th in 2019), the 6,207th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,320th in 2019) and the 497th most popular American Writer.

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  • 31

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  • 2.15

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  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Camille Paglia ranks 4,599 out of 7,302Before her are María de Zayas, Albert Samain, Dante Spinotti, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Saint-Pol-Roux, and Linn Ullmann. After her are Wang Guowei, Rodolfo Walsh, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Mordecai Kaplan, Lalleshwari, and Yambo Ouologuem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Camille Paglia ranks 476Before her are Heide Rosendahl, Ottis Toole, Job Cohen, Ladislav Kuna, Geydar Dzhemal, and Renata Sorrah. After her are Pia Kjærsgaard, Peter Riegert, Glynn Turman, Lev Rokhlin, Aneka, and Nolan Ryan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Camille Paglia ranks 6,207 out of 20,380Before her are Val Avery (1924), Eric Winter (1976), Ann Curtis (1926), Julia Stiles (1981), Ken Davitian (1953), and Bebe Daniels (1901). After her are Playboi Carti (1996), Alf Landon (1887), Charles Kittel (1916), Stephen McKinley Henderson (1949), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), and Henry Lee III (1756).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Camille Paglia ranks 497Before her are David Mamet (1947), Amiri Baraka (1934), Neal Stephenson (1959), Jack Canfield (1944), Robert Greene (1959), and Robert Richardson (1955). After her are Art Buchwald (1925), John Piper (1946), Gordon Willis (1931), Anita Loos (1889), Robert Lowell (1917), and James Agee (1909).