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John Burroughs

1837 - 1921

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John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose resonance with the tone of its cultural moment explains both its popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Burroughs is the 6,432nd most popular writer (up from 6,555th in 2024), the 12,168th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,655th in 2019) and the 877th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, John Burroughs ranks 6,432 out of 7,302. Before him are P. H. Newby, Benjamin Zephaniah, Alice Sebold, Leyla Aliyeva, Terry Southern, and Carmen Posadas. After him are John Gribbin, Sebastian Fitzek, Bosley Crowther, Robert Elsie, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Helen Bannerman.

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Among people born in 1837, John Burroughs ranks 115. Before him are Richard A. Proctor, José Burgos, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Georg Bühler, Mark Hanna, and Charles Ammi Cutter. After him are P. B. S. Pinchback, and Joaquin Miller. Among people deceased in 1921, John Burroughs ranks 134. Before him are Abbott Handerson Thayer, William Friese-Greene, Henry Hyndman, Charles B. Cory, Raymond Thorne, and Con Leahy. After him are James Mitchel, Coenraad Hiebendaal, and P. B. S. Pinchback.

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Among people born in United States, John Burroughs ranks 12,171 out of 20,380. Before him are Ellen Geer (1941), Tom Paxton (1937), Eddie Deezen (1957), Sean O'Malley (1994), Jan Peerce (1904), and Ron Gilbert (1964). After him are Shauna Grant (1963), Norman Johnson (1930), Ed Boon (1964), Jay Inslee (1951), Bosley Crowther (1905), and Mike Mullane (1945).

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Among writers born in United States, John Burroughs ranks 877. Before him are Ann Coulter (1961), Joel Barlow (1754), Robert Cormier (1925), Lester Bangs (1948), Alice Sebold (1963), and Terry Southern (1924). After him are Bosley Crowther (1905), Sarah Josepha Hale (1788), Alan Dundes (1934), Greil Marcus (1945), Lynne Cox (1957), and J. P. Donleavy (1926).

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