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A. Merritt

1884 - 1943

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Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943) – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 1999, its fourth class of two deceased and two living writers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. A. Merritt is the 4,645th most popular writer (down from 3,844th in 2019), the 6,961st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,949th in 2019) and the 525th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, A. Merritt ranks 4,645 out of 7,302Before him are Alexander Volkov, Christian Matras, Isaac Watts, Urs Widmer, Levon Shant, and Pierre Mac Orlan. After him are Sahar Khalifeh, Nathanael West, Géza Csáth, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, and Joanna Russ.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, A. Merritt ranks 180Before him are Yrjö Saarela, Ture Rangström, Jean-Richard Bloch, Andrés Martínez Trueba, Dewi Sartika, and Ludwik Hirszfeld. After him are Vadym Meller, Georg Zacharias, Louis Abell, József Rády, Olle Lanner, and Michel de Klerk. Among people deceased in 1943, A. Merritt ranks 174Before him are Lojze Grozde, Hisashi Kimura, Géo André, Gerard De Geer, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, and Frank Schlesinger. After him are Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Seigō Nakano, Milutin Ivković, Helene Stöcker, Eugeniusz Bodo, and Dudley Pound.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, A. Merritt ranks 6,963 out of 20,380Before him are Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), Justin Chambers (1970), Krista Allen (1971), Yvette Mimieux (1942), Chris Mulkey (1948), and Edith McGuire (1944). After him are D. H. Peligro (1959), George Devol (1912), Nathanael West (1903), Sarah Rafferty (1972), Karen Pence (1957), and Clarence Pinkston (1900).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, A. Merritt ranks 525Before him are Julia Ward Howe (1819), John D. MacDonald (1916), Robert Richardson (1955), Sandra Brown (1948), Mary McCarthy (1912), and Jaroslav Pelikan (1923). After him are Nathanael West (1903), Joanna Russ (1937), Maxwell Anderson (1888), Chris Morgan (1966), William Wharton (1925), and Shel Silverstein (1930).