WRITER

Conrad Aiken

1889 - 1973

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Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Conrad Aiken has received more than 299,200 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Conrad Aiken is the 4,172nd most popular writer (up from 4,906th in 2019), the 5,506th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,247th in 2019) and the 448th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Poems
1929
The charnel rose. Senlin
1918
Turns and movies, and other tales in verse
1916
Prelude
1929
The jig of Forslin
Accessible book
1916
The house of dust
Fiction, Poetry
.. . Parts of this poem have been printed in "The North American
1920

Page views of Conrad Aikens by language

Over the past year Conrad Aiken has had the most page views in the with 36,840 views, followed by Spanish (3,386), and French (2,795). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (171.67%), Slovak (99.10%), and Finnish (94.05%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Conrad Aiken ranks 4,172 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Déroulède, Lajos Kassák, Jacqueline de Romilly, Oskar Luts, Jean-Louis de Rambures, and Tullio Pinelli. After him are Vassilis Alexakis, Olav Duun, Carolina Coronado, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Lydia Chukovskaya, and Sahar Khalifeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Conrad Aiken ranks 202. Before him are Georg Schrimpf, Vladimir Sokoloff, Adrian Boult, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Anita Malfatti, and Snub Pollard. After him are Claudia Muzio, Pearl White, Gerhard Marcks, Heinrich Campendonk, Hjalmar Andersson, and William Justin Kroll. Among people deceased in 1973, Conrad Aiken ranks 168. Before him are Charles Daniels, Alexander Rou, Hilda Geiringer, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, and Harold Hotelling. After him are Gösta Dunker, Anton Ackermann, Robert Buron, Elizabeth Bowen, William Justin Kroll, and Masayuki Mori.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Conrad Aiken ranks 5,506 out of 20,380. Before him are Virginia E. Johnson (1925), John Larroquette (1947), Eli Roth (1972), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Richard Marx (1963), and Lester R. Brown (1934). After him are Holcombe Ward (1878), Earle Meadows (1913), Charles Dvorak (1878), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Diahnne Abbott (1945), and Edward Gibson (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Conrad Aiken ranks 448. Before him are Mona Simpson (1957), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Kathy Acker (1947), Glen A. Larson (1937), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), and Hart Crane (1899). After him are Leigh Brackett (1915), Louise Erdrich (1954), Sonny Barger (1938), Ida B. Wells (1862), Theodore Roszak (1933), and Charlaine Harris (1951).

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