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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 531,281 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Robert Bly is the 3,045th most popular writer (up from 4,878th in 2019), the 3,976th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,933rd in 2019) and the 357th most popular American Writer.

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  • 530k

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  • 51.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Bly ranks 3,045 out of 5,755. Before him are Viktor Dyk, Emile Habibi, Daniël Heinsius, Dodie Smith, Glen Cook, and Catherine Breillat. After him are Eysteinn Erlendsson, Charles-Louis Havas, Arno Schmidt, Michel Ocelot, Suman Pokhrel, and Denis Davydov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Robert Bly ranks 204. Before him are José Alfredo Jiménez, Sadegh Khalkhali, Michael Bond, Paul Janssen, Hans-Jochen Vogel, and Nikita Simonyan. After him are Ray Brown, Georgi Lozanov, Frank Finlay, Arnošt Lustig, Marian Jaworski, and Dennis W. Sciama. Among people deceased in 2021, Robert Bly ranks 296. Before him are Yevhen Marchuk, Lars Norén, Jaime Lerner, B. J. Thomas, Marie-Claire Blais, and George Shultz. After him are Michael Nesmith, Gunilla Bergström, István Csom, Udo Zimmermann, Otar Patsatsia, and Romano Fogli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bly ranks 3,976 out of 18,182. Before him are Dwight L. Moody (1837), Don Adams (1923), Glen Cook (1944), Afrika Bambaataa (1957), Michael Peña (1976), and Jeff Hanneman (1964). After him are Scott Walker (1943), Elizabeth Warren (1949), Earl Boen (1945), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Huey Lewis (1950), and Lynn Cohen (1933).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Bly ranks 357. Before him are Howard Pyle (1853), James Rollins (1961), Fanny Crosby (1820), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), and Glen Cook (1944). After him are Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Glen A. Larson (1937), Gregory Benford (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Bill Bryson (1951), and John Perkins (1945).

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