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Robert Creeley

1926 - 2005

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Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than 60 books. He is associated with the Black Mountain poets, although his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. Creeley was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. Creeley served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Creeley is the 6,213th most popular writer (down from 6,171st in 2019), the 11,010th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,557th in 2019) and the 807th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert Creeley ranks 6,213 out of 7,302. Before him are Liu Xia, Ferenc Juhász, John Patrick Shanley, Christopher Fry, Louis Sachar, and Iskandar Khatloni. After him are Victoria Amelina, Aglaja Veteranyi, Lyman Abbott, Patrick Grainville, Emmanuil Kazakevich, and Maja Bošković-Stulli.

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Among people born in 1926, Robert Creeley ranks 489. Before him are Tim LaHaye, Lionel Jeffries, Desmond Connell, Éva Janikovszky, Franca Falcucci, and Jan Morris. After him are Bud Shank, Dionizije Dvornić, Misael Escuti, Aldo Ray, Beverly Garland, and Chuck Cooper. Among people deceased in 2005, Robert Creeley ranks 329. Before him are Stanley Sadie, M. Scott Peck, Long John Baldry, Peter Jennings, Keith Andes, and Christopher Fry. After him are Nikolai Puchkov, Misael Escuti, August Wilson, Paul Winchell, Georges Dransart, and Harold J. Stone.

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Among people born in United States, Robert Creeley ranks 11,012 out of 20,380. Before him are Louis Sachar (1954), Rikishi (1965), Charles Dumas (1937), Edward Egan (1932), Evelyn Venable (1913), and Sam Balter (1909). After him are Richard Garfield (1963), Baby Dodds (1898), Markie Post (1950), Bud Shank (1926), Edgar Buchanan (1903), and Christian Serratos (1990).

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Among writers born in United States, Robert Creeley ranks 807. Before him are Patricia A. McKillip (1948), Peter Orlovsky (1933), Joan D. Vinge (1948), Christina Hoff Sommers (1950), John Patrick Shanley (1950), and Louis Sachar (1954). After him are Lyman Abbott (1835), Emma Willard (1787), Edward Everett Hale (1822), Elizabeth Moon (1945), Andrew Vachss (1942), and Oscar Hijuelos (1951).

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