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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 213,117 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Roth is the 4,721st most popular writer (down from 4,264th in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 548th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

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  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Roth ranks 4,721 out of 5,755Before him are Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Jorge Edwards, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Joanna Russ, Béla Illés, and Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov. After him are Teresa de la Parra, Imants Ziedonis, Wilferd Madelung, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, and Richard Scarry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Henry Roth ranks 271Before him are Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Alice Kober, Branislav Sekulić, James Quinn, Lee Barnes, and Eino Penttilä. After him are Édouard Artigas, Alexander Kazantsev, Jacqueline Cochran, Márcio Melo, Satchel Paige, and Ödön Zombori. Among people deceased in 1995, Henry Roth ranks 216Before him are Laurindo Almeida, Aldo Gordini, J. William Fulbright, Reinhard Furrer, Frank Silva, and Julián Berrendero. After him are Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Fabio Casartelli, Nicolás Lindley López, George W. Romney, Maurinho, and Jack Finney.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Henry Roth ranks 650 out of 1,083Before him are Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Dmitry Kozak (1958), Paul A. Baran (1909), Hermann Kesten (1900), and Alexander Ostrowski (1893). After him are Irina Kirichenko (1937), Abraham Lempel (1936), Alexander Brailowsky (1896), Ivan Kavaleridze (1887), Marie Ljalková (1920), and Vladimir Shainsky (1925).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Henry Roth ranks 90Before him are Margarita Aliger (1915), Sofia Yablonska (1907), Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1892), Yurii Andrukhovych (1960), Eduard Bagritsky (1895), and Hermann Kesten (1900). After him are Ivan Kavaleridze (1887), Mark Aldanov (1886), Vladimir Dudintsev (1918), Boris Lavrenyov (1891), Ariel Durant (1898), and Milena Rudnytska (1892).