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Michael McClure

1932 - 2020

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Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael McClure is the 6,394th most popular writer (up from 6,411th in 2019), the 11,976th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,862nd in 2019) and the 867th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Michael McClure ranks 6,394 out of 7,302. Before him are James Branch Cabell, John Addington Symonds, Renata Viganò, Ksenia Sobchak, George B. Seitz, and Glenn Greenwald. After him are Alice Hoffman, Dick King-Smith, Ann Coulter, Gilles Leroy, Anthony McCarten, and Gerbrand Bakker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Michael McClure ranks 536. Before him are Malcolm Bradbury, Andrew Young, Susan Oliver, Enrique Múgica, Howard Hodgkin, and Danny Hodge. After him are Bob McGrath, Jake Garn, Alexander Goehr, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Jackie Henderson, and Bob Lutz. Among people deceased in 2020, Michael McClure ranks 732. Before him are Timothy Ray Brown, Diana Serra Cary, Enrique Múgica, Haruma Miura, Karel Neffe, and Danny Hodge. After him are Naya Rivera, J. I. Packer, Ivan Utrobin, Bhanu Athaiya, Dawn Wells, and Sumner Redstone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael McClure ranks 11,978 out of 20,380. Before him are Ed Markey (1946), David Ramsey (1971), Danny Hodge (1932), Trick-Trick (1973), Louise Fazenda (1895), and Pauline Bush (1886). After him are St. Vincent (1982), Billy Higgins (1936), Lesley Ashburner (1883), Alice Hoffman (1952), Martha Plimpton (1970), and Donald Faison (1974).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Michael McClure ranks 867. Before him are Beverly Cleary (1916), Damon Runyon (1880), Leslie Feinberg (1949), James Branch Cabell (1879), George B. Seitz (1888), and Glenn Greenwald (1967). After him are Alice Hoffman (1952), Ann Coulter (1961), Joel Barlow (1754), Robert Cormier (1925), Lester Bangs (1948), and Alice Sebold (1963).

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