Niggerati Power Rankings
Here is the number of Google page hits per member of the current niggerati. Not that it's a contest or anything (fogive the title of this entry, I couldn't resist), but it is interesting.
How big is any writer? How is that defined, by sales, or readers, or critical praise? Or is it something even more elusive: artistic merit? If something cannot acurately be quantified, can it truly be used as a measure? Google has become the portal through which we funnel the information of the world. In that regard, its measure is probably as valid as any.
1,560,000 for "toni morrison"
1,130,000 for "alice walker"
490,000 for "walter mosley"
297,000 for "samuel r. delany"
286,000 for "edward p. jones"
229,000 for "nalo hopkinson"
227,000 for "edwidge danticat"
193,000 for "ishmael reed"
183,000 for "colson whitehead"
152,000 for "ntozake shange"
134,000 for "gloria naylor"
128,000 for "derrick bell"
127,000 for "ernest gaines"
120,000 for "john edgar wideman"
84,000 for "zz packer"
81,500 for "paule marshall"
73,200 for "albert murray"
67,900 for "percival everett"
61,400 for "paul beatty"
52,500 for "tayari jones"
48,500 for "wanda coleman"
46,100 for "colin channer"
42,200 for "j. california cooper"
41,200 for "danzy senna"
40,700 for "gayl jones"
38,200 for "martha southgate"
38,000 for "marlon james"
37,500 for "marita golden"
34,900 for "mat johnson"
27,800 for "david anthony durham"
27,100 for "elizabeth nunez"
22,100 for "trey ellis"
17,700 for "kenji jasper"
14,300 for "darryl pinckney"
14,000 for "brian keith jackson"
12,800 for "victor lavalle"
12,700 for "michael datcher"
11,600 for "reginald mcknight"
10,200 for "alexs pate"
I limited this to living writers known for their literary fiction (it's what I do and also this list is all I have time to do right now). Some writers (David Bradley, Calvin Baker, Andrea Lee, Charles Johnson, Toure, etc.) could not be included because their names were too generic to properly google. I included only writers of the Americas for the sake of economy: the Africans, Afro-brits, and Afropeans are so numerous I would never be done. I also excluded those writers with less than 10,000 hits: I don't want anyone to feel personally belittled.
Thoughts? Additions?
How big is any writer? How is that defined, by sales, or readers, or critical praise? Or is it something even more elusive: artistic merit? If something cannot acurately be quantified, can it truly be used as a measure? Google has become the portal through which we funnel the information of the world. In that regard, its measure is probably as valid as any.
1,560,000 for "toni morrison"
1,130,000 for "alice walker"
490,000 for "walter mosley"
297,000 for "samuel r. delany"
286,000 for "edward p. jones"
229,000 for "nalo hopkinson"
227,000 for "edwidge danticat"
193,000 for "ishmael reed"
183,000 for "colson whitehead"
152,000 for "ntozake shange"
134,000 for "gloria naylor"
128,000 for "derrick bell"
127,000 for "ernest gaines"
120,000 for "john edgar wideman"
84,000 for "zz packer"
81,500 for "paule marshall"
73,200 for "albert murray"
67,900 for "percival everett"
61,400 for "paul beatty"
52,500 for "tayari jones"
48,500 for "wanda coleman"
46,100 for "colin channer"
42,200 for "j. california cooper"
41,200 for "danzy senna"
40,700 for "gayl jones"
38,200 for "martha southgate"
38,000 for "marlon james"
37,500 for "marita golden"
34,900 for "mat johnson"
27,800 for "david anthony durham"
27,100 for "elizabeth nunez"
22,100 for "trey ellis"
17,700 for "kenji jasper"
14,300 for "darryl pinckney"
14,000 for "brian keith jackson"
12,800 for "victor lavalle"
12,700 for "michael datcher"
11,600 for "reginald mcknight"
10,200 for "alexs pate"
I limited this to living writers known for their literary fiction (it's what I do and also this list is all I have time to do right now). Some writers (David Bradley, Calvin Baker, Andrea Lee, Charles Johnson, Toure, etc.) could not be included because their names were too generic to properly google. I included only writers of the Americas for the sake of economy: the Africans, Afro-brits, and Afropeans are so numerous I would never be done. I also excluded those writers with less than 10,000 hits: I don't want anyone to feel personally belittled.
Thoughts? Additions?
5 Comments:
Hey, Mat...
It's been awhile. Glad to see you blogging. Plan to make this a daily (first thing in the morning) stop.
Best,
Nichelle Tramble "59,800"
Hey Nichelle,
Glad to hear from you again. Yeah, I'm going to update regularly, but man is it time consuming: I'm trying to write more books and get up to 59K like you!
Best,
MJ
CHIPP WHITEHEAD!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously tho, no chris abani? Didn't they give that cat a PEN Hemingway? No Nelly Rosario? Spread luv baby!
Chipp whitehead. Bwahahahaha! Seriously tho, no chris abani? They gave home fries a pen/hemingway. No junot diaz? No nelly rosario? Spread luv baby!
Again, I just limited it to African Americans for the sake of time, but if someone wants to submit one for the other subgroups I'll be happy to post it. I wanted to add Chris but then I would have had to enter like 30 more names to be consistent.
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