WRITER

Meena Alexander

1951 - 2018

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Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meena Alexander has received more than 1,201,698 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Meena Alexander is the 7,159th most popular writer (down from 6,438th in 2019), the 1,365th most popular biography from India (down from 1,221st in 2019) and the 147th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Manhattan music
East Indian Americans, East Indian Women, Fiction
1997
The poetic self
History and criticism, Modern Poetry, Romanticism
1979
Fault lines
American Poets, Biography, East Indian Americans
1992
Nampally Road
1991
Fault lines
East Indian Americans, Social life and customs, Biography
1993
Quickly Changing River
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
2008

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meena Alexander ranks 7,159 out of 7,302. Before her are Espido Freire, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chetan Bhagat, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Owen Gleiberman, and Hitomi Kanehara. After her are Judith Wright, Chris Abani, J. G. Quintel, Jane Espenson, Kristin Cashore, and Man Haron Monis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Meena Alexander ranks 741. Before her are Raelene Boyle, Alexander Downer, Sidney M. Gutierrez, Linda Grant, Mike Leavitt, and John McDonnell. After her are Stephen S. Oswald, Mike Thompson, Paula Vogel, Ed Royce, Jim Holton, and Frank Pallone. Among people deceased in 2018, Meena Alexander ranks 615. Before her are Ivor Richard, Vlatko Ilievski, Craig Mack, Goran Bunjevčević, Cyrille Regis, and Juan Carlos García. After her are Victoria Marinova, Brian Christopher, Fazlullah, Labinot Harbuzi, Daniela Samulski, and Kalpana Lajmi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Meena Alexander ranks 1,365 out of 1,861. Before her are Tanvi Azmi (1960), Jyotindra Nath Dixit (1936), Ayesha Takia (1986), Chetan Bhagat (1974), Sai Pallavi (1992), and Mohammed Shahid (1960). After her are Parag Agrawal (1984), Raashi Khanna (1990), Tusshar Kapoor (1976), S. J. Suryah (1968), Jaspal Bhatti (1955), and Renuka Shahane (1966).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Meena Alexander ranks 147. Before her are Urvashi Butalia (1952), Ramachandra Guha (1958), Nirupama Rao (1950), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956), Dinesh D'Souza (1961), and Chetan Bhagat (1974). After her are Anita Nair (1966), Sanal Edamaruku (1955), Jasodhara Bagchi (1937), Sushmita Banerjee (1964), Sharmila Rege (1964), and Tapan Kumar Pradhan (1972).

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