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Eldridge Cleaver

1935 - 1998

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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing". Cleaver stated in Soul on Ice: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America." Cleaver went on to become a prominent member of the Black Panthers, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers, while a fugitive from the United States criminal justice system in Cuba and Algeria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eldridge Cleaver has received more than 2,153,050 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eldridge Cleaver is the 5,397th most popular writer (down from 4,869th in 2019), the 8,746th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,903rd in 2019) and the 690th most popular American Writer.

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  • 43.24

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eldridge Cleaver ranks 5,397 out of 5,755. Before him are Kevin J. Anderson, Edward Abbey, Peter Seeberg, Mihkel Veske, M. Scott Peck, and Liu Xia. After him are Giannina Braschi, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Max Eastman, Shahrnush Parsipur, Vasily Belov, and Darren Shan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Eldridge Cleaver ranks 392. Before him are Tenley Albright, Leo Falcam, Jeremy Kemp, Jack McDevitt, Laurynas Stankevičius, and James Cotton. After him are Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Ivan Calin, Leonid Potapov, Claude Esteban, Donald Arnold, and Mary Oliver. Among people deceased in 1998, Eldridge Cleaver ranks 248. Before him are John Pulman, James Lighthill, Richard Denning, Hilla Limann, Clark Clifford, and Erling Evensen. After him are Jack Rowley, Jane Bell, Aleksey Spiridonov, Ran Laurie, Louis Hostin, and Charles Sibley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eldridge Cleaver ranks 8,746 out of 18,182. Before him are Neal Schon (1954), Denton Cooley (1920), Debby Ryan (1993), Chris von Saltza (1944), George J. Mitchell (1933), and Chloe Webb (1956). After him are Charles Marion Russell (1864), Ellen Greene (1951), John Sebastian (1944), Allen Collins (1952), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847), and Peter Segal (1962).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Eldridge Cleaver ranks 690. Before him are Helene Hanff (1916), Avram Davidson (1923), Diane Ackerman (1948), Kevin J. Anderson (1962), Edward Abbey (1927), and M. Scott Peck (1936). After him are Max Eastman (1883), Michael Blake (1945), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Winston Churchill (1871), Akiva Goldsman (1962), and Whittaker Chambers (1901).

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