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Edna St. Vincent Millay

1892 - 1950

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edna St. Vincent Millay has received more than 1,342,253 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Edna St. Vincent Millay is the 3,525th most popular writer (down from 3,199th in 2019), the 4,520th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,210th in 2019) and the 376th most popular American Writer.

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  • 58.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edna St. Vincent Millay ranks 3,525 out of 7,302. Before her are Phan Thi Kim Phuc, He Zhizhang, Remigius of Auxerre, Johannes von Tepl, Arator, and Sara Teasdale. After her are Nikolay Ogarev, Helena Roerich, Ryōtarō Shiba, Rutka Laskier, Laza Lazarević, and Tsubouchi Shōyō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay ranks 172. Before her are John Alcock, George Lawrence Price, Alberto Bayo, Mercedes de Acosta, Mieczysław Horszowski, and Pierre Blanchar. After her are Vladimir Stoychev, Konstantin Fedin, József Nagy, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Lola Anglada, and Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Among people deceased in 1950, Edna St. Vincent Millay ranks 108. Before her are Arthur L. Newton, Sudirman, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Orhan Veli Kanık, and Heinrich Tessenow. After her are Pavel Bazhov, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Miklós Bánffy, László Cseh, Recep Peker, and Sami al-Hinnawi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edna St. Vincent Millay ranks 4,520 out of 20,380. Before her are Antonin Scalia (1936), William Guarnere (1923), Sara Teasdale (1884), Keenan Wynn (1916), Zeppo Marx (1901), and Robert Kerman (1947). After her are Kevin Nash (1959), Rocky Graziano (1919), Francis Collins (1950), Rob Zombie (1965), Lydia Clarke (1923), and Sasha Grey (1988).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edna St. Vincent Millay ranks 376. Before her are Gary Snyder (1930), Jonathan Littell (1967), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Dennis Lehane (1965), Adrienne Rich (1929), and Sara Teasdale (1884). After her are Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Donald Barthelme (1931), Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), Gene Wolfe (1931), and Joss Whedon (1964).

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