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James Agee

1909 - 1955

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James Rufus Agee ( AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Agee has received more than 665,065 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). James Agee is the 4,464th most popular writer (down from 4,048th in 2019), the 6,225th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,614th in 2019) and the 506th most popular American Writer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Agee ranks 4,464 out of 5,755Before him are Alfredo Zitarrosa, Eliška Krásnohorská, Kedarnath Singh, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Carmen de Burgos, and Edward William Lane. After him are Stijn Streuvels, Nikolai Tikhonov, George Chapman, Iakob Gogebashvili, Hans Werner Richter, and Leo Buscaglia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, James Agee ranks 241Before him are Carlo Agostoni, Karl Gruber, Peter Scott, Hilde Domin, Arvo Askola, and Cilly Aussem. After him are Toshiko Yuasa, Bill Carr, Balamani Amma, Sven Jonasson, Mike Todd, and Ramón Villeda Morales. Among people deceased in 1955, James Agee ranks 114Before him are Nick Winter, Honus Wagner, Johannes de Jong, Shemp Howard, Jonni Myyrä, and Luís de Freitas Branco. After him are František Janda-Suk, Constantin Argetoianu, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Arturo Coddou, Tommy Burns, and Charley Toorop.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Agee ranks 6,225 out of 18,182Before him are Lucas Black (1982), Pat Smear (1959), James Dashner (1972), Aria Giovanni (1977), Henry Slocum (1862), and Kenneth Mars (1935). After him are Frank Irons (1886), Ann Blyth (1928), Ralph Towner (1940), Parker Posey (1968), Mandy Moore (1984), and Louise Dresser (1878).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Agee ranks 506Before him are Horatio Alger (1832), Robert B. Parker (1932), Louis Bromfield (1896), Irving Wallace (1916), Marilyn French (1929), and James Dashner (1972). After him are Leo Buscaglia (1924), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Lucius Shepard (1943), Jane Bowles (1917), Lydia Davis (1947), and Helen Thomas (1920).