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Roxane Gay

1974 - Today

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Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roxane Gay has received more than 2,284,971 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Roxane Gay is the 6,412th most popular writer (down from 5,736th in 2019), the 15,897th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,691st in 2019) and the 1,065th most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 28.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roxane Gay ranks 6,412 out of 5,755. Before her are Brian K. Vaughan, Park Yeon-mi, Yahya Hassan, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chetan Bhagat, and Urvashi Butalia. After her are Paul Harding, Hitomi Kanehara, Denise Mina, Anita Sarkeesian, Henriett Seth F., and Alejandro Rejon Huchin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Roxane Gay ranks 808. Before her are Vitaly Makarov, Jack D. Fischer, Benedict Akwuegbu, Saša Gajser, Goran Jagodnik, and Barbara Chiappini. After her are Jani Sievinen, Vince Spadea, Dennis Lawrence, Masato Harasaki, Sandro André da Silva, and Makoto Takimoto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roxane Gay ranks 15,897 out of 18,182. Before her are Michael Stahl-David (1982), Candace Parker (1986), Dana Barros (1967), Andrew Puzder (1950), Maria Van Kerkhove (1977), and Todd Lowe (1972). After her are Pierre J. Thuot (1955), Danielle Fishel (1981), Tianna Bartoletta (1985), Meryl Davis (1987), Cassidy Freeman (1982), and Tiffany Cohen (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Roxane Gay ranks 1,065. Before her are Tahereh Mafi (1988), Vanessa Taylor (1970), Adam Johnson (1967), Edward Kitsis (1971), Brian K. Vaughan (1976), and Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975). After her are Paul Harding (1967), Pamela Geller (1958), Kenneth Turan (1946), Adam Horowitz (1971), Nnedi Okorafor (1974), and Matthew Quick (1973).

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