WRITER

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

1950 - Today

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Louis Gates Jr. has received more than 2,769,490 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the 6,915th most popular writer (down from 6,244th in 2019), the 14,908th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,997th in 2019) and the 1,068th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The signifying monkey
African American authors, African Americans, African Americans in literature
1988
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Literature, black authors, Poetry, modern, women authors, American poetry, african american authors
1988
The African-American century
African American influences, African Americans, Afro-American influences
2000
Colored people
Social life and customs, Critics, African American scholars
1994
Wonders of the African world
Africa, Civilization, Photographie
1999
Unchained Memories
Slavery, Slaves, Biography
2002

Page views of Henry Louis Gates Jr.s by language

Over the past year Henry Louis Gates Jr. has had the most page views in the with 379,857 views, followed by French (3,214), and German (2,578). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (78.45%), Estonian (52.96%), and Spanish (33.01%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 6,915 out of 7,302. Before him are Laurent Gaudé, Natalya Vorozhbyt, Mark Manson, Alexey Dreev, Vicenç Pagès, and Sidney Lanier. After him are K. A. Applegate, Elena Chizhova, Prvoslav Vujcic, Doris Kareva, Heston Blumenthal, and Jenny Han.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 732. Before him are Pawan Kumar Chamling, Phoebe Snow, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Todd McCarthy, Nasirul Mulk, and Linda Bassett. After him are Tom Alter, Khandu Wangchuk, Goutam Ghose, Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, Winston E. Scott, and Charles Frazier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 14,908 out of 20,380. Before him are Hal Rogers (1937), Aya Cash (1982), Steve Blum (1960), Jason Butler Harner (1970), Sean Parnell (1962), and Billy Gould (1963). After him are George W. Norris (1861), Lisa Leslie (1972), Billy Casper (1931), Dale Bumpers (1925), K. A. Applegate (1956), and Brenda Russell (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 1,068. Before him are Robert B. Spencer (1962), Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875), Paul Attanasio (1959), Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1973), Mark Manson (1984), and Sidney Lanier (1842). After him are K. A. Applegate (1956), Jenny Han (1980), Matthew Weiner (1965), Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943), Meghan McCain (1984), and Alfred Gough (1967).

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