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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 213,703 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alison Lurie is the 5,157th most popular writer (down from 4,903rd in 2019), the 7,919th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,099th in 2019) and the 633rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alison Lurie ranks 5,157 out of 5,755. Before her are Izaak Walton, Frederick Rolfe, Can Dündar, Henry van Dyke Jr., Christopher Paolini, and Kazimierz Brandys. After her are Jerry Falwell, Jan Frans Willems, Günter de Bruyn, Otokar Březina, Bruno Heller, and Ismat Chughtai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Alison Lurie ranks 361. Before her are Tom Tryon, Frank O'Hara, Nel van Vliet, Bill Black, Göta Pettersson, and Angus Scrimm. After her are Günter de Bruyn, Tapio Mäkelä, Moshe Sanbar, Adriano Directo Emperado, Richard DeVos, and Verne Gagne. Among people deceased in 2020, Alison Lurie ranks 496. Before her are Eppie Wietzes, Jahn Teigen, Nathan Zach, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Ali Bozer, and Folke Alnevik. After her are Jean Brankart, Günter de Bruyn, Robert Trump, Aleksandr Aksinin, Detto Mariano, and Larry Kramer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alison Lurie ranks 7,919 out of 18,182. Before her are Christopher Paolini (1983), Gilda Radner (1946), Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803), Leelee Sobieski (1983), Magic Slim (1937), and John Rutledge (1739). After her are Jerry Falwell (1933), Pat McCormick (1930), Strother Martin (1919), Isaac Israel Hayes (1832), Jeanne Cooper (1928), and Mia Zapata (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Alison Lurie ranks 633. Before her are Zitkala-Sa (1876), Elmer Rice (1892), Gay Talese (1932), Tim Powers (1952), Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), and Christopher Paolini (1983). After her are Jerry Falwell (1933), Ann Coulter (1961), Richard Wilbur (1921), Larry Kramer (1935), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), and Michael Bishop (1945).

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