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Mary Oliver

1935 - 2019

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Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Oliver has received more than 2,166,916 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Oliver is the 4,932nd most popular writer (up from 5,442nd in 2019), the 6,876th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,009th in 2019) and the 552nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Oliver ranks 4,932 out of 7,302. Before her are Mark Frost, Swarnakumari Devi, Marin Sorescu, Wang Meng, Frédérick Tristan, and Olavo Bilac. After her are Piers Anthony, Eyvindr skáldaspillir, Sahir Ludhianvi, Albert Londres, Anna Maria Lenngren, and Francis Bebey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Mary Oliver ranks 345. Before her are Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Michael Chapman, Oscar Panno, Candy Barr, Johnny Mathis, and Lee Meriwether. After her are Régine Deforges, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Märta Tikkanen, João Morais, Nancy Kovack, and Vicente Lucas. Among people deceased in 2019, Mary Oliver ranks 334. Before her are Norma Croker, Pedro Morales, Beth Carvalho, Richard Lugar, Sulli, and Richard Williams. After her are Egisto Pandolfini, Inger Berggren, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Zlatko Škorić, Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, and Verna Bloom.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Oliver ranks 6,876 out of 20,380. Before her are Dove Cameron (1996), Mark Lanegan (1964), Keri Russell (1976), Miguel Sandoval (1951), Ken Jeong (1969), and Marshall Berman (1940). After her are William P. Gottlieb (1917), Kate Mara (1983), Cameron Crowe (1957), Ron Asheton (1948), Allan Bloom (1930), and Richard Simmons (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mary Oliver ranks 552. Before her are Marilynne Robinson (1943), Horatio Alger (1832), C. L. Moore (1911), Diane Ackerman (1948), Edmund Wilson (1895), and Mark Frost (1953). After her are Paula Fox (1923), Eben Alexander (1953), Frank Belknap Long (1901), William Dean Howells (1837), Kenneth Copeland (1936), and Sidney Howard (1891).

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