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Amor Towles

1964 - Today

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Amor Towles (born 1964) is an American novelist. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011), A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), and The Lincoln Highway (2021). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amor Towles has received more than 1,411,676 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Amor Towles is the 7,112th most popular writer, the 16,704th most popular biography from United States and the 1,148th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 32.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Table For Two
2024
The Lincoln Highway
American literature, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2021-10-24, New York Times bestseller
2021
Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
2023
Rules of Civility
Fiction, Nineteen thirties, Man-woman relationships
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
2011
Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 3
2023
A Gentleman in Moscow
historical fiction, literary fiction, political fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles. It is his second novel, published five years after his New York Times best seller, Rules of Civility (2011).
2016

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amor Towles ranks 7,112 out of 7,302. Before him are Krisztina Tóth, Kamila Shamsie, Adam Johnson, Lev Grossman, Julia Serano, and Fatima Massaquoi. After him are Monica Ali, Zehra Doğan, Roxane Gay, Daniel O. Fagunwa, Maria Parr, and Francisco Villarroel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Amor Towles ranks 862. Before him are Rick Leach, Yoshiyuki Kato, Desmond Armstrong, Carolyn Waldo, Anthony Scaramucci, and Vasilios Kotronias. After him are Cheryl Miller, Christer Majbäck, Leland D. Melvin, Corrado Sanguineti, TobyMac, and Mikko Kolehmainen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amor Towles ranks 16,704 out of 20,380. Before him are Chet Huntley (1911), Kaitlyn (1986), David Vitter (1961), Kip Winger (1961), R'Bonney Gabriel (1994), and Gregory Meeks (1953). After him are Michael Urie (1980), Alessandra Torresani (1987), Alexis Ohanian (1983), Alicia Garza (1981), Booboo Stewart (1994), and Evan Lysacek (1985).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Amor Towles ranks 1,148. Before him are Rebecca Walker (1969), Elizabeth Hand (1957), Diablo Cody (1978), Adam Johnson (1967), Lev Grossman (1969), and Julia Serano (1967). After him are Roxane Gay (1974), Ian Brennan (1978), Scott Lynch (1978), Tom Bergeron (1955), Marissa Meyer (1984), and James Vanderbilt (1975).

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