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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 720,803 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). James Agee is the 4,627th most popular writer (down from 4,450th in 2019), the 6,246th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,212th in 2019) and the 503rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Agee ranks 4,627 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Lowell, Staka Skenderova, Eugenio Espejo, Łukasz Górnicki, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, and Friedrich von Hagedorn. After him are Oğuz Atay, Adam Asnyk, Alexander McCall Smith, Ludwig Bechstein, Nancy Huston, and W. S. Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, James Agee ranks 270. Before him are Zoya Fyodorova, Norris Bradbury, Adolf Šimperský, Marianne Hoppe, David Miller, and Hilde Domin. After him are Eudora Welty, Jaime Lazcano, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Reinhold Münzenberg, Vagn Holmboe, and Carlo Agostoni. Among people deceased in 1955, James Agee ranks 123. Before him are Hamida Javanshir, Ramón Muttis, Alice Joyce, Tom Moore, Margaret Abbott, and Leonardus Nardus. After him are František Janda-Suk, Fumio Hayasaka, Johannes de Jong, Tommy Burns, Constantin Argetoianu, and Charley Toorop.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Agee ranks 6,246 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Romano (1957), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Renee O'Connor (1971), Aria Giovanni (1977), Caroline Harrison (1832), and Carl Switzer (1927). After him are Lhasa de Sela (1972), Nicholas Hammond (1950), Paul Gray (1972), John W. Foster (1836), Harry Davenport (1866), and Sandra Harding (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Agee ranks 503. Before him are Camille Paglia (1947), Art Buchwald (1925), John Piper (1946), Gordon Willis (1931), Anita Loos (1889), and Robert Lowell (1917). After him are Zane Grey (1872), Nicholas Meyer (1945), Eudora Welty (1909), Tobias Wolff (1945), Louis Bromfield (1896), and Mary McCarthy (1912).

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