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Robert Frost

1874 - 1963

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Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Frost has received more than 5,039,304 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Robert Frost is the 87th most popular writer (down from 77th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from United States (down from 48th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Writer.

Robert Frost is most famous for his poetry. He is often called the "poet laureate of America."

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  • 5.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 83.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 21.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Frost ranks 87 out of 5,794. Before him are Guy de Maupassant, Milan Kundera, Jonathan Swift, Knut Hamsun, James Joyce, and Octave Mirbeau. After him are George Bernard Shaw, François Rabelais, Astrid Lindgren, Toni Morrison, Charles Bukowski, and Heinrich Heine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Robert Frost ranks 3. Before him are Winston Churchill and Guglielmo Marconi. After him are Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edward Thorndike, Howard Carter, W. Somerset Maugham, Herbert Hoover, Chaim Weizmann, and Ernst Cassirer. Among people deceased in 1963, Robert Frost ranks 4. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Édith Piaf, and Pope John XXIII. After him are Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Schuman, Tristan Tzara, C. S. Lewis, and Ngo Dinh Diem.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Frost ranks 60 out of 15,968. Before him are Kirk Douglas (1916), Warren Buffett (1930), Jack London (1876), Jack Nicholson (1937), James Stewart (1908), and Abraham Maslow (1908). After him are John D. Rockefeller (1839), George W. Bush (1946), John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Harry S. Truman (1884), Judy Garland (1922), and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Frost ranks 6. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Mark Twain (1835), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), and Jack London (1876). After him are Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Henry David Thoreau (1817), J. D. Salinger (1919), John Steinbeck (1902), and H. P. Lovecraft (1890).

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