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Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

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Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Laurence Dunbar has received more than 935,794 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Paul Laurence Dunbar is the 5,868th most popular writer (down from 5,256th in 2019), the 11,319th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,318th in 2019) and the 845th most popular American Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Laurence Dunbar ranks 5,868 out of 5,755Before him are Norman Podhoretz, Zakhar Prilepin, Michal Šanda, Caryl Churchill, Alexei Panshin, and Bessie Head. After him are Leyla Aliyeva, Joumana Haddad, John Seigenthaler, Graciano Rocchigiani, Dorothy Allison, and Stephen Chbosky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar ranks 172Before him are Lucille La Verne, Harlan F. Stone, Anna Held, Otto Bahr Halvorsen, Ralph Lewis, and Bernard Knubel. After him are Fannie Ward, Michael Joseph Savage, Ivar Lykke, George Dern, Charles Murray, and Joseph Taylor Robinson. Among people deceased in 1906, Paul Laurence Dunbar ranks 68Before him are George Holyoake, José María de Pereda, Pedro Varela, John Schofield, Walter Buller, and Mary Putnam Jacobi. After him are Eastman Johnson and Richard Seddon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Laurence Dunbar ranks 11,319 out of 18,182Before him are Johnny Van Zant (1960), James H. Billington (1929), George Barnes (1892), Tom Lenk (1976), Al Freeman Jr. (1934), and Genesis Rodriguez (1987). After him are R-Truth (1972), Maria Schneider (1960), Kim Thayil (1960), Enrique Murciano (1973), Frank Lovejoy (1912), and Christian Pollas (1947).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paul Laurence Dunbar ranks 845Before him are Ellen Glasgow (1873), Jill Abramson (1954), Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Katie Couric (1957), Norman Podhoretz (1930), and Alexei Panshin (1940). After him are John Seigenthaler (1927), Dorothy Allison (1949), Stephen Chbosky (1970), James Gleick (1954), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), and William H. Gass (1924).