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Gwendolyn Brooks

1917 - 2000

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gwendolyn Brooks has received more than 1,043,007 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gwendolyn Brooks is the 5,682nd most popular writer (down from 5,050th in 2019), the 8,674th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,602nd in 2019) and the 669th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gwendolyn Brooks ranks 5,682 out of 7,302. Before her are Ernest Dowson, Martin Litchfield West, You Xie, Alison Lurie, Hugh Walpole, and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. After her are Herberto Hélder, Cynthia McLeod, Lew Rockwell, Walter Moers, Donald Richie, and John Holt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Gwendolyn Brooks ranks 286. Before her are Tetsuo Hamuro, Amelia Piccinini, Wenche Foss, Jack Lynch, Władysław Rubin, and Eugen Walaschek. After her are Melville Shavelson, Jo Stafford, Steve Cochran, Pyotr Demichev, Rufus Thomas, and Birger Rosengren. Among people deceased in 2000, Gwendolyn Brooks ranks 280. Before her are Usha Mehta, Stanley Turrentine, Lepo Sumera, Raymundo Rodríguez, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, and Ernesto Albarracín. After her are Simeon Simeonov, Yuriy Lituyev, Spyridon Belokas, Efstathios Chorafas, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and Józef Pińkowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gwendolyn Brooks ranks 8,674 out of 20,380. Before her are Alison Lurie (1926), Kevin Dillon (1965), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), Ray Anthony (1922), Jack Wagner (1959), and Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815). After her are Donald Regan (1918), Common (1972), Larry Drake (1950), Bill Hader (1978), Karen Bass (1953), and Dave Weckl (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gwendolyn Brooks ranks 669. Before her are William Blum (1933), Michael Shermer (1954), Kevin Kelly (1952), Edmund White (1940), Alison Lurie (1926), and Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815). After her are Lew Rockwell (1944), Donald Richie (1924), John Holt (1923), Earl Derr Biggers (1884), Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), and Dee Brown (1908).

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