WRITER

Mina Loy

1882 - 1966

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Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia, and Yvor Winters, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mina Loy has received more than 309,670 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mina Loy is the 5,935th most popular writer, the 4,758th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 535th most popular British Writer.

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  • 44.26

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  • 15

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  • 2.75

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  • 2.74

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Notable Works

The lost lunar Baedeker
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1996
The last lunar Baedeker
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1982
Last Luner Baedeker
1982
Lunar Baedeker & time-tables
1958
Stories and essays of Mina Loy
American literature
2011
Insel
Fiction, general
1991

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mina Loy ranks 5,935 out of 7,302. Before her are Hanya Yanagihara, Meg Cabot, Alvah Bessie, René Boylesve, Jorge Enrique Adoum, and William Inge. After her are Ian Buruma, Zoé Valdés, Wilma Mankiller, Philippe Delerm, Christian Kracht, and Göran Sonnevi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Mina Loy ranks 257. Before her are André Rischmann, Herbert E. Ives, Geoffrey de Havilland, Ödön Bodor, Jaroslav Tuček, and George van Rossem. After her are Paul Koebe, Paul Günther, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Felix Frankfurter, Edward Van Sloan, and Ricardo J. Alfaro. Among people deceased in 1966, Mina Loy ranks 210. Before her are Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Sophie Tucker, Néstor Guillén, Mir Sultan Khan, Robert Keith, and Manuel María Ponce Brousset. After her are Alvin Langdon Coburn, Joe Spence, Frankie Genaro, Esna Boyd, Carl Osburn, and Anders Petersen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mina Loy ranks 4,758 out of 8,785. Before her are Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), Fred Davis (1913), Kieran Trippier (1990), David Owen (1938), Dave Gibbons (1949), and Nicollette Sheridan (1963). After her are Arnold Jackson (1891), Jim Lea (1949), Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674), Mary Beard (1955), Juliet Stevenson (1956), and Heather Angel (1909).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mina Loy ranks 535. Before her are Julia Donaldson (1948), Anthony Powell (1905), Leigh Hunt (1784), Clare Hollingworth (1911), Isaac D'Israeli (1766), and William Cobbett (1763). After her are Susan Cooper (1935), Hugh Blair (1718), Edmund Gosse (1849), William Bell Scott (1811), George Holyoake (1817), and Francis Chichester (1901).

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