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WRITER

Mercedes de Acosta

1892 - 1968

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Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich. Her best-known involvement was with Greta Garbo with whom, in 1931, she began a sporadic and volatile romance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mercedes de Acosta has received more than 850,788 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mercedes de Acosta is the 3,038th most popular writer (up from 3,280th in 2019), the 3,969th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,321st in 2019) and the 355th most popular American Writer.

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  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 3,038 out of 5,755Before her are Gunnar Ekelöf, Takeo Arishima, Boris Polevoy, Juliette Adam, Samad Behrangi, and Marie-Joseph Chénier. After her are Viktor Dyk, Emile Habibi, Daniël Heinsius, Dodie Smith, Glen Cook, and Catherine Breillat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 151Before her are William Powell, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Alice Brady, Hironori Ōtsuka, Yuen Ren Chao, and Ivan Tyulenev. After her are Corrie ten Boom, Manuel Roxas, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Lydia Lopokova, Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Among people deceased in 1968, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 104Before her are Camille Huysmans, Sigfried Giedion, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Lina Stern, Jan Johansson, and Gunnar Ekelöf. After her are Khuang Aphaiwong, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Joseph Keilberth, Ivan Pyryev, Ramon Novarro, and Ludowika Jakobsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 3,969 out of 18,182Before her are Sean Astin (1971), Jack Arnold (1916), Roy Buchanan (1939), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), Sandahl Bergman (1951), and Ralph Nader (1934). After her are Dwight L. Moody (1837), Don Adams (1923), Glen Cook (1944), Afrika Bambaataa (1957), Michael Peña (1976), and Jeff Hanneman (1964).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 355Before her are Betty Mahmoody (1945), Robert McKee (1941), Howard Pyle (1853), James Rollins (1961), Fanny Crosby (1820), and Robert M. Pirsig (1928). After her are Glen Cook (1944), Robert Bly (1926), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Glen A. Larson (1937), Gregory Benford (1941), and Jim Carroll (1949).