WRITER

Gregory Corso

1930 - 2001

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Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. He was one of the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory Corso has received more than 442,374 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gregory Corso is the 3,055th most popular writer (down from 2,577th in 2019), the 3,858th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,357th in 2019) and the 334th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Elegiac feelings American
1970
Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg
English poetry, English poetry (Collections)
1963
The happy birthday of death
Poems, Poetry
1960
Gasoline
American poetry
1958
Long live man
American poetry
1962
Mindfield
Beat generation, Poetry, American poetry
1989

Page views of Gregory Corsos by language

Over the past year Gregory Corso has had the most page views in the with 53,449 views, followed by Italian (10,511), and French (3,727). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (99.62%), Belarusian (75.71%), and Southern Azerbaijani (52.10%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gregory Corso ranks 3,055 out of 7,302. Before him are José María Arguedas, Azalais de Porcairagues, Nikolay Nosov, Tarafa, Joseph Joffo, and Ibn Zaydún. After him are Ahmadou Kourouma, José Donoso, Ricardo Piglia, Shulamith Firestone, Jean Astruc, and Félix Fénéon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gregory Corso ranks 245. Before him are Shahabuddin Ahmed, Juan Gelman, Josef Hügi, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Miodrag Bulatović, and Jean Guillou. After him are Orvar Bergmark, Paul Poupard, Ahmed Osman, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Julián Herranz Casado, and Freimut Börngen. Among people deceased in 2001, Gregory Corso ranks 121. Before him are Marta Hillers, Budd Boetticher, Leila Pahlavi, Jelle Zijlstra, Gloria Foster, and Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Grigory Chukhray, David Lewis, Aaliyah, Kathleen Freeman, Robert Enrico, and Mike Mentzer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Corso ranks 3,858 out of 20,380. Before him are Rosario Dawson (1979), John Amos (1939), Chrissie Hynde (1951), Bruno Kirby (1949), Thomas Gibson (1962), and Bob Seger (1945). After him are Marion Davies (1897), Genie (1957), Baby Face Nelson (1908), Florence Harding (1860), Peter Steele (1962), and Wayne Rainey (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gregory Corso ranks 334. Before him are Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Laura Bridgman (1829), David Foster Wallace (1962), Jim Rohn (1930), John Perkins (1945), and Donna Tartt (1963). After him are Lois Lowry (1937), Anne Applebaum (1964), Charlie Kaufman (1958), Steve Berry (1955), Henrietta Szold (1860), and Mike Mentzer (1951).

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