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Alison Lurie

1926 - 2020

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Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alison Lurie has received more than 227,413 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alison Lurie is the 5,679th most popular writer (down from 5,139th in 2019), the 8,668th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,904th in 2019) and the 667th most popular American Writer.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alison Lurie ranks 5,679 out of 7,302. Before her are Marmaduke Pickthall, James Hogg, William Michael Rossetti, Ernest Dowson, Martin Litchfield West, and You Xie. After her are Hugh Walpole, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Gwendolyn Brooks, Herberto Hélder, Cynthia McLeod, and Lew Rockwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Alison Lurie ranks 417. Before her are W. Michael Blumenthal, Géza Kádas, Rosa Taikon, A. N. R. Robinson, John Gardner, and John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough. After her are Nikos Koundouros, Tom Tryon, Conrad Hall, Darleane C. Hoffman, H. R. Haldeman, and Ralph Abernathy. Among people deceased in 2020, Alison Lurie ranks 553. Before her are Abby Dalton, Pedro Pablo León, Willi Holdorf, Giuliana Minuzzo, Volodymyr Troshkin, and Sapardi Djoko Damono. After her are Stephen F. Cohen, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Wolfgang Hofmann, and Anthony Soter Fernandez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alison Lurie ranks 8,668 out of 20,380. Before her are Alexander Courage (1919), Liz Torres (1947), Don Patinkin (1922), Steve Franken (1932), Walt Ader (1913), and Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916). After her are Kevin Dillon (1965), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), Ray Anthony (1922), Jack Wagner (1959), Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), and Gwendolyn Brooks (1917).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Alison Lurie ranks 667. Before her are Kate Wilhelm (1928), MacKenzie Scott (1970), William Blum (1933), Michael Shermer (1954), Kevin Kelly (1952), and Edmund White (1940). After her are Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Lew Rockwell (1944), Donald Richie (1924), John Holt (1923), and Earl Derr Biggers (1884).

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