WRITER

Gary Snyder

1930 - Today

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Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Snyder has received more than 962,368 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Snyder is the 3,486th most popular writer (down from 2,911th in 2019), the 4,462nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,807th in 2019) and the 370th most popular American Writer.

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  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gary Snyder ranks 3,486 out of 7,302. Before him are Moritz Steinschneider, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, John Boyne, Orhan Veli Kanık, Jurij Brězan, and Hiratsuka Raichō. After him are Andrejs Pumpurs, Roger Vailland, Immanuel Velikovsky, Tim Krabbé, Justus Jonas, and Jonathan Littell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gary Snyder ranks 287. Before him are Jorma Panula, Julio Abbadie, Jan Olszewski, Ryszard Kukliński, Egon Bondy, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. After him are Ernst Tugendhat, Arsenio Iglesias, Kurt Nielsen, Sigge Parling, Rolf Hoppe, and Merab Mamardashvili.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Snyder ranks 4,462 out of 20,380. Before him are L. Q. Jones (1927), Martha Hyer (1924), John Doman (1945), Mitchell Ryan (1928), Seth MacFarlane (1973), and Edmund Muskie (1914). After him are Robert Urich (1946), Ruggiero Ricci (1918), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), James Michael Tyler (1962), Leo Penn (1921), and Richard Kind (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gary Snyder ranks 370. Before him are Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Peter Straub (1943), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Bell hooks (1952), H.D. (1886), and Octavia E. Butler (1947). After him are Jonathan Littell (1967), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Dennis Lehane (1965), Adrienne Rich (1929), Sara Teasdale (1884), and Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892).

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