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Sidney Lanier

1842 - 1881

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Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes used dialects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Lanier has received more than 505,306 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Lanier is the 6,231st most popular writer (down from 5,475th in 2019), the 13,711th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,825th in 2019) and the 996th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 34.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sidney Lanier ranks 6,231 out of 5,755. Before her are Geoffrey A. Landis, Miles Franklin, Vittorio Arrigoni, Édouard Louis, Edwin Morgan, and Khady Sylla. After her are Robert B. Spencer, Kage Baker, Charles Frazier, Jo Walton, Saša Stanišić, and Samanta Schweblin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Sidney Lanier ranks 95. Before her are Henry Hyndman, Charles W. Alcock, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Robert Collett, Charles Lapworth, and Elliott Coues.  Among people deceased in 1881, Sidney Lanier ranks 77. Before her are George Borrow, Alexandru G. Golescu, John C. Pemberton, Johann Ludwig Krapf, William Burges, and Thomas François Burgers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Lanier ranks 13,711 out of 18,182. Before her are Lauren Lapkus (1985), Ira Sachs (1965), Michael Everson (1963), Chris Shiflett (1971), Dane Cook (1972), and Jessica Tuck (1963). After her are Thomas Bibb (1783), Charlie Wilson (1953), James Patrick Stuart (1968), Katie Morgan (1980), Amanda Palmer (1976), and Bruce Bowen (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sidney Lanier ranks 996. Before her are Chris Morgan (1966), Andy Rooney (1919), Becca Fitzpatrick (1979), Zona Gale (1874), Valerie Plame (1963), and Geoffrey A. Landis (1955). After her are Robert B. Spencer (1962), Kage Baker (1952), Charles Frazier (1950), Elizabeth Kostova (1964), Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943), and Chris Hedges (1956).

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