WRITER

Clark Ashton Smith

1893 - 1961

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Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California (largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling) for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clark Ashton Smith has received more than 754,289 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Clark Ashton Smith is the 1,910th most popular writer (down from 1,713th in 2019), the 2,415th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,226th in 2019) and the 215th most popular American Writer.

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  • 56.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Clark Ashton Smith ranks 1,910 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Addison, Christopher Robin Milne, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Viktor Barna, Ruan Ji, and György Konrád. After him are Moschus, Eiji Tsuburaya, Surdas, Gitta Sereny, Watchman Nee, and Juhani Aho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Clark Ashton Smith ranks 83. Before him are Dorothy Parker, Dean Acheson, Henry Murray, Armand Călinescu, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, and William Moulton Marston. After him are Alexander Korda, Ivan Panfilov, Aarre Merikanto, Miloš Crnjanski, Władysław Strzemiński, and Alfréd Schaffer. Among people deceased in 1961, Clark Ashton Smith ranks 45. Before him are Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Ludwik Fleck, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Bulbul, Herbert Pitman, and Platt Adams. After him are Max Simon, Shigeko Higashikuni, Valentin Bondarenko, Milan Stojadinović, Anna May Wong, and Henri Breuil.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clark Ashton Smith ranks 2,415 out of 20,380. Before him are Alexander Haig (1924), John Frusciante (1970), Clancy Brown (1959), Platt Adams (1885), DeForest Kelley (1920), and Will Ferrell (1967). After him are Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), Ken Block (1967), David Farragut (1801), Craig T. Nelson (1944), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), and Jon Favreau (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Clark Ashton Smith ranks 215. Before him are James Ellroy (1948), Johnston McCulley (1883), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Shirley Jackson (1916), Nora Ephron (1941), and Voltairine de Cleyre (1866). After him are Robert James Waller (1939), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Jane Jacobs (1916), Eugene Nida (1914), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), and Cornell Woolrich (1903).

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