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James Dickey

1923 - 1997

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James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Dickey has received more than 735,216 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James Dickey is the 5,961st most popular writer (down from 5,552nd in 2019), the 9,597th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,484th in 2019) and the 723rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 740k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Dickey ranks 5,961 out of 7,302. Before him are Árpád Tóth, Giannina Braschi, Josipina Turnograjska, Jeroen Brouwers, José Jiménez Lozano, and François Nourissier. After him are Robert J. Sawyer, Hugh Blair, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Quinn, Lucía Etxebarría, and Monika Fagerholm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, James Dickey ranks 424. Before him are Óscar González, Ram Jethmalani, Mae Young, Albert Decourtray, Ivano Blason, and George Russell. After him are Kenneth Lane, Vladimir Tendryakov, Mort Walker, Leonid Shamkovich, Percy Heath, and Sumner Redstone. Among people deceased in 1997, James Dickey ranks 277. Before him are Shuhei Nishida, Aleksandr Ivanov, Albert Heremans, James Goldsmith, Wilbert Awdry, and Kåre Holt. After him are Jacques Pollet, Ödön Gróf, LaVern Baker, Spartaco Bandinelli, Basri Dirimlili, and Jean Louis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dickey ranks 9,597 out of 20,380. Before him are Gloria Talbott (1931), Rocky Carroll (1963), James Deen (1986), Eric Rudolph (1966), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), and Paul Bartel (1938). After him are Curtis Stevens (1898), Chris Connor (1927), Austin Pendleton (1940), Ann Doran (1911), Patricia Richardson (1951), and George Fisher (1970).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Dickey ranks 723. Before him are Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Meg Cabot (1967), Alvah Bessie (1904), William Inge (1913), Wilma Mankiller (1945), and J. Michael Straczynski (1954). After him are Damon Lindelof (1973), Daniel Quinn (1935), Winston Churchill (1871), Walter Lord (1917), Michael Parenti (1933), and Tom Brokaw (1940).

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