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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 881,278 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gary Snyder is the 2,922nd most popular writer (down from 2,891st in 2019), the 3,817th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,712th in 2019) and the 343rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gary Snyder ranks 2,922 out of 5,755. Before him are Giacomo da Lentini, Richard Baxter, Hermann Rauschning, Marjorie Boulton, Ales Adamovich, and Censorinus. After him are Jurij Brězan, Dunash ben Labrat, Drago Jančar, Bhalchandra Nemade, Peter Mayle, and Catulle Mendès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gary Snyder ranks 232. Before him are Jim Hall, Yuri Artyukhin, José María Zárraga, Freimut Börngen, Thomas Sowell, and Svatopluk Pluskal. After him are Miodrag Bulatović, Borislav Pekić, Vilmos Zsigmond, Paul Veyne, Jean Guillou, and Roy E. Disney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Snyder ranks 3,817 out of 18,182. Before him are Rick Barry (1944), Kenneth Anger (1927), Robert Brout (1928), Daniel D. Tompkins (1774), Philip Baker Hall (1931), and William Joseph Simmons (1880). After him are Darlene Conley (1934), Carlos Lopes (1947), Lobo (1943), Miriam Hopkins (1902), Norman Taurog (1899), and Thomas E. Dewey (1902).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gary Snyder ranks 343. Before him are James A. Michener (1907), Booker T. Washington (1856), Andrea Dworkin (1946), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), William Goldman (1931), and Anne Applebaum (1964). After him are Neal Stephenson (1959), Adrienne Rich (1929), Cotton Mather (1663), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), Douglas Preston (1956), and Betty Mahmoody (1945).

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