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Wallace Stevens

1879 - 1955

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Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wallace Stevens has received more than 983,528 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Wallace Stevens is the 3,206th most popular writer (down from 2,931st in 2019), the 4,214th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,779th in 2019) and the 371st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wallace Stevens ranks 3,206 out of 5,755. Before him are Cristina Peri Rossi, Arctinus of Miletus, Evgeny Schwartz, Rupert Brooke, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Alexander Bestuzhev. After him are Zülfü Livaneli, Zacharias Werner, Bruce Sterling, Hans Erich Nossack, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dionysius Periegetes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Wallace Stevens ranks 115. Before him are Friedrich Christiansen, Vittorio Ambrosio, Yevgenia Bosch, Bernhard Kellermann, Kafū Nagai, and Petar Živković. After him are Adolf Wiklund, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Mostafa El-Nahas, Clemente Micara, Eugen Varga, and Leonid Mandelstam. Among people deceased in 1955, Wallace Stevens ranks 90. Before him are Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Ahmad Qavam, Guy Ropartz, Otto Gessler, Lin Huiyin, and Ona Munson. After him are Tribhuvan of Nepal, Hans Hedtoft, Theodor Plievier, Karl Hofer, Helena Roerich, and Ramón Muttis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Stevens ranks 4,214 out of 18,182. Before him are Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Milt Jackson (1923), Steven Holl (1947), Ona Munson (1903), Seymour Cray (1925), and Mary Surratt (1823). After him are Benny Urquidez (1952), Carol Lynley (1942), Bruce Sterling (1954), Floyd Westerman (1936), Joanne Dru (1922), and William Hoyt (1875).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Wallace Stevens ranks 371. Before him are James Russell Lowell (1819), Emma Lazarus (1849), David Foster Wallace (1962), Joss Whedon (1964), Elbert Hubbard (1856), and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906). After him are Bruce Sterling (1954), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Willa Cather (1873), Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), Diane Disney Miller (1933), and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822).

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