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Jim Carroll

1949 - 2009

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James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Carroll has received more than 2,392,762 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Carroll is the 3,131st most popular writer (down from 2,811th in 2019), the 4,089th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,601st in 2019) and the 361st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jim Carroll ranks 3,131 out of 5,755. Before him are Gabrielle Roy, Arnošt Lustig, Holger Drachmann, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Robert de Clari, and Cristina Calderón. After him are Bill Bryson, José Lezama Lima, Futabatei Shimei, John Perkins, Lytton Strachey, and Alexandre Herculano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jim Carroll ranks 232. Before him are Henning Jensen, Franco Causio, William Forsythe, Würzel, Nawaz Sharif, and Eric Carmen. After him are Tony Cragg, Tommy Mottola, Papa Wemba, Lindsey Buckingham, Hyon Yong-chol, and Mari Alkatiri. Among people deceased in 2009, Jim Carroll ranks 147. Before him are Fritz Darges, Roy E. Disney, Valentin Varennikov, Grigore Vieru, Giovanni Arrighi, and Pierre Harmel. After him are Pierre Gamarra, Kazumi Takada, Abdellatif Filali, Lyudmila Zykina, Hildegard Behrens, and Karl Koller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Carroll ranks 4,089 out of 18,182. Before him are Warren Oates (1928), Gene Kranz (1933), Howard Keel (1919), Celeste Holm (1917), Clifton James (1920), and Eric Carmen (1949). After him are Harrison Dillard (1923), Bill Bryson (1951), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), Gladys Knight (1944), Arielle Dombasle (1953), and John Perkins (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jim Carroll ranks 361. Before him are Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Glen Cook (1944), Robert Bly (1926), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Glen A. Larson (1937), and Gregory Benford (1941). After him are Bill Bryson (1951), John Perkins (1945), Spencer Johnson (1938), James Russell Lowell (1819), Emma Lazarus (1849), and David Foster Wallace (1962).

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