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Robert Bly

1926 - 2021

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Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Bly is the 5,455th most popular writer (up from 5,737th in 2019), the 8,602nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,818th in 2019) and the 637th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert Bly ranks 5,455 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolai Pogodin, Walter J. Ong, János Pilinszky, Aquilino Ribeiro, Sax Rohmer, and Albert Engström. After him are Edoardo Sanguineti, Luis Rosales, Birago Diop, Boris Lavrenyov, William Muir, and Hellmuth Karasek.

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Among people born in 1926, Robert Bly ranks 404. Before him are Frank O'Hara, Giovanni Invernizzi, Tapio Mäkelä, Géza Kádas, Rafael Azcona, and Alison Lurie. After him are Georgi Yumatov, Ken Olsen, Bob Benny, Robert Jay Lifton, James Best, and Charlotte Rae. Among people deceased in 2021, Robert Bly ranks 489. Before him are Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Kurt Biedenkopf, Murray Walker, Martin Turnovský, Yevgeniy Chazov, and Pyotr Mamonov. After him are Buddy Van Horn, Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Gerry Ashmore, Lubomir Kavalek, Peter Del Monte, and Shankha Ghosh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bly ranks 8,604 out of 20,380. Before him are Tory Lane (1982), DeWitt Clinton (1769), Paul Dano (1984), Chris Sununu (1974), Melissa Joan Hart (1976), and Maxine Singer (1931). After him are Buddy Van Horn (1928), Bill Frisell (1951), Harold Agnew (1921), George Voinovich (1936), William Yorzyk (1933), and Havoc (1974).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Bly ranks 637. Before him are Robert Coover (1932), Fran Lebowitz (1950), Chaim Potok (1929), Robert Christgau (1942), Alison Lurie (1926), and Walter J. Ong (1912). After him are Holly Black (1971), Max Eastman (1883), Dorothy Allison (1949), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), Judith Krantz (1928), and Sara Paretsky (1947).

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