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Robert Bly

1926 - 2021

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Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Bly has received more than 576,319 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Robert Bly is the 5,737th most popular writer (down from 3,034th in 2019), the 8,816th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,965th in 2019) and the 680th most popular American Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

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  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Bly ranks 5,737 out of 7,302. Before him are Katri Vala, José Manuel Caballero, Jack McDevitt, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Charles Williams, and Can Dündar. After him are Jules Roy, Darya Dontsova, Alberto Bevilacqua, Ann Rule, Ivan Tavčar, and Mateja Matevski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Robert Bly ranks 428. Before him are H. R. Haldeman, Ralph Abernathy, Klaus Schütz, Torfi Bryngeirsson, Lily Carlstedt, and José Manuel Caballero. After him are Loris Campana, Georges Gandil, Richard DeVos, Jesús Loroño, Nel van Vliet, and Ernst Larsen. Among people deceased in 2021, Robert Bly ranks 505. Before him are Ignacio Achúcarro, Al Unser, Cyril Mango, José Manuel Caballero, Svante Thuresson, and Chris Craft. After him are Helen Murray Free, Ernie Lively, Pedro Casado, Leonid Bartenyev, Paola Pigni, and Zlatko Saračević.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bly ranks 8,816 out of 20,380. Before him are David Buss (1953), Seymour Benzer (1921), Herman Groman (1882), Peter Berg (1962), Dave Farrell (1977), and Elle Fanning (1998). After him are Elizabeth Ashley (1939), Helen Murray Free (1923), Norman Bel Geddes (1893), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Laura La Plante (1904), and T. Keith Glennan (1905).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Bly ranks 680. Before him are Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), Dee Brown (1908), Henry Ward Beecher (1813), Robert Christgau (1942), James E. Gunn (1923), and Jack McDevitt (1935). After him are Ann Rule (1931), Gardner Dozois (1947), Diana Der Hovanessian (1934), Daniel Pearl (1963), Steven Saylor (1956), and Avram Davidson (1923).

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