WRITER

Alice Walker

1944 - Today

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Walker has received more than 5,854,239 page views. Her biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Alice Walker is the 1,617th most popular writer (down from 1,563rd in 2019), the 2,005th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,027th in 2019) and the 176th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alice Walker ranks 1,617 out of 7,302. Before her are Uri Avnery, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Marie de Gournay, Aharon Appelfeld, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Pierre Reverdy. After her are Adèle Hugo, Eupolis, Marquis de Custine, Ibn al-Farid, Jean de Meun, and Mary of Jesus of Ágreda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Alice Walker ranks 150. Before her are Kiri Te Kanawa, Chung Hong-won, John Entwistle, Jan Guillou, James Heckman, and Michel Polnareff. After her are Oleg Yankovsky, Mary Robinson, Carlos Pace, Everaldo, Tommie Smith, and Sergei Belov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Walker ranks 2,005 out of 20,380. Before her are Margaret Sanger (1879), William H. Seward (1801), James Heckman (1944), Jeff Koons (1955), Rhea Perlman (1948), and Archie Hahn (1880). After her are Alan Menken (1949), Marion Ramsey (1947), James Avery (1945), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Jennifer Garner (1972), and Darren Aronofsky (1969).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Alice Walker ranks 176. Before her are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Dean Koontz (1945), Langston Hughes (1902), Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), and Philip José Farmer (1918). After her are Gore Vidal (1925), Ira Levin (1929), Martin Gardner (1914), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Upton Sinclair (1878), and Fredric Jameson (1934).

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