WRITER

Henry Roth

1906 - 1995

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Henry Roth (February 8, 1906 – October 13, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Roth has received more than 225,982 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Roth is the 5,402nd most popular writer (down from 4,705th in 2019), the 837th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 647th in 2019) and the 121st most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The aborigines of Tasmania
Tasmanian languages, Ethnology, Aboriginal Tasmanians
1890
Aborigines of Tasmania
Ethnology, australia, tasmania, Tasmanian languages, Aboriginal australians
2009
Mercy of a rude stream
Fiction, Jewish families, Immigrants
1994
Call it sleep
Fiction, Immigrants, Jews
1934
Studies in primitive looms
Handlooms, Looms, Weaving
1918
Call it sleep
Jews, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Roth ranks 5,402 out of 7,302. Before him are Ring Lardner, Aya Kitō, Elizabeth Hawley, José Carlos Somoza, John Connolly, and William Harrison Ainsworth. After him are Kang Kyeong-ae, Ibrahim Kuni, Kristin Hannah, Kārlis Skalbe, Mochtar Lubis, and Olivia Manning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Henry Roth ranks 325. Before him are Jean Delarge, Harry Hopman, Nils Skoglund, Richard Rado, Richard Llewellyn, and Jorge Icaza Coronel. After him are Kang Kyeong-ae, Willibald Kreß, Gustav Schäfer, Luis Marín, Sara Ashurbeyli, and Mary Brian. Among people deceased in 1995, Henry Roth ranks 262. Before him are Robertson Davies, Genrikh Kasparyan, Fischer Black, Giorgio Bocchino, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, and George Stibitz. After him are John Peters Humphrey, George Abbott, Sergei Grinkov, Margaret Woodbridge, Paul A. Rothchild, and José Luis González Dávila.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Henry Roth ranks 837 out of 1,365. Before him are Antoni Malczewski (1793), Volodymyr Dakhno (1932), Mykola Rudenko (1920), Leonid Osyka (1940), Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), and Maryna Viazovska (1984). After him are Dmytro Yarosh (1971), Ani Lorak (1978), Viktor Chanov (1959), Krystyna Feldman (1916), Andriy Bal (1958), and Eduard Gufeld (1936).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Henry Roth ranks 121. Before him are Dmytro Pavlychko (1929), Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1892), Vasily Yan (1874), Serhiy Zhadan (1974), Vira Vovk (1926), and Antoni Malczewski (1793). After him are Iryna Vilde (1907), Boris Lavrenyov (1891), Jan Parandowski (1895), Zośka Vieras (1892), Mikhail Svetlov (1903), and Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894).

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