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Gregory Corso

1930 - 2001

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Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet. Along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, he was part of the Beat Generation, as well as one of its youngest members. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Corso is the 3,447th most popular writer (down from 3,055th in 2019), the 4,955th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,858th in 2019) and the 389th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Gregory Corso ranks 3,447 out of 7,302. Before him are Iain Banks, Mouloud Mammeri, Michel Ocelot, Laza Lazarević, Remigius of Auxerre, and Gérard de Villiers. After him are Philippe Jaccottet, Ahmadou Kourouma, Theodore Bibliander, Arctinus of Miletus, Franco Sacchetti, and James Aldridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gregory Corso ranks 288. Before him are Elaine Stewart, Silvio Santos, Braulio Musso, Orvar Bergmark, Odetta, and Shahabuddin Ahmed. After him are Al Lawrence, Jean-Louis de Rambures, John Wood, Roy E. Disney, Giuliano Montaldo, and Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores. Among people deceased in 2001, Gregory Corso ranks 155. Before him are Mike Mentzer, David Lewis, Ri Kun-mo, Aldo Olivieri, Vasily Mishin, and David Kipiani. After him are Salahuddin of Selangor, Herbert Ross, Anne Haney, Davorin Popović, Sergej Kraigher, and Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Corso ranks 4,955 out of 20,380. Before him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Wallace Stevens (1879), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Gregg Allman (1947), Joseph Cornell (1903), and Timothy Olyphant (1968). After him are Margaret Taylor (1788), Mike Lee (1971), Melissa Sue Anderson (1962), Johnny Nash (1940), Kyle Chandler (1965), and Timothée Chalamet (1995).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gregory Corso ranks 389. Before him are Henry Kuttner (1915), Paul Gallico (1897), Charlie Kaufman (1958), Maurice Sendak (1928), Lillian Hellman (1905), and Wallace Stevens (1879). After him are Lawrence Block (1938), H.D. (1886), Susan Brownmiller (1935), Fanny Crosby (1820), Richard Yates (1926), and Glen Cook (1944).

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