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E. E. Cummings

1894 - 1962

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Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room in 1922. The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. E. Cummings has received more than 2,488,976 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). E. E. Cummings is the 1,725th most popular writer (down from 1,649th in 2019), the 2,160th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,159th in 2019) and the 187th most popular American Writer.

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  • 57.33

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

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  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

E.E. Cummings
Exhibitions, Essays, Theater
1965
Poems
Translations into Ukrainian
1963
Selected poems, 1923-1958
1960
1 x 1
1944
The Enormous Room
Accessible book, Ambulance drivers, Ambulance drivers in fiction
he Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an American ambulance corps in France during World War I, were erroneously suspected of treasonable correspondence and were imprisoned from August, 1917, until January, 1918. In this book, Cummings describes the prisoners with whom he shared his captivity, the captors who subjected their victims to enormous cruelty, and the filthy surroundings of the prison camp.
1922
I
American literature, Biography, American Poets
"Six marvelously unconventional lectures...an aesthetic self-portrait and a definition of Mr. Cummings' 'stance' as a writer. Full of originality, high spirits, and aphoristic dicta, they express a credo of intense individualism." --*Atlantic*
1953

Among WRITERS

Among writers, E. E. Cummings ranks 1,725 out of 7,302. Before him are Slavenka Drakulić, Marin Držić, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Luigi Pulci, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Archestratus. After him are Hans F. K. Günther, Ken Wilber, Sabino Arana, Alexander Grin, Håkan Nesser, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, E. E. Cummings ranks 72. Before him are Frank Borzage, Wilhelm Schepmann, King Vidor, Mei Lanfang, Georges Gurvitch, and T. V. Soong. After him are Fritz Freitag, Albert Leo Schlageter, Friedrich Hossbach, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Erwin Schulhoff, and Oskar Klein. Among people deceased in 1962, E. E. Cummings ranks 57. Before him are Hu Shih, Frank Borzage, Thomas Mitchell, Muhammad VIII al-Amin, Emil Artin, and Albert Sarraut. After him are Wilhelm Ohnesorge, Kirsten Flagstad, Leonardo De Lorenzo, Poul Nielsen, Antoine Pevsner, and Wilhelm Ackermann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. E. Cummings ranks 2,160 out of 20,380. Before him are Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), Laura Dern (1967), Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), George Wallace (1919), George B. McClellan (1826), and William Sadler (1950). After him are Joe Pantoliano (1951), Ted Danson (1947), Ken Wilber (1949), Barry Seal (1939), Tony Levin (1946), and Vincent Schiavelli (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, E. E. Cummings ranks 187. Before him are Upton Sinclair (1878), Fredric Jameson (1934), R. L. Stine (1943), Bernard Malamud (1914), Lewis Mumford (1895), and Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930). After him are Ken Wilber (1949), William Carlos Williams (1883), Joan Didion (1934), Edmond Hamilton (1904), Dorothy Parker (1893), and Richard Ford (1944).

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