WRITER

Anne McCaffrey

1926 - 2011

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Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne McCaffrey has received more than 969,281 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Anne McCaffrey is the 2,860th most popular writer (down from 2,491st in 2019), the 3,616th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,235th in 2019) and the 311th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne McCaffrey ranks 2,860 out of 7,302. Before her are Aleksander Fredro, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Irvine Welsh, Leonid Leonov, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, and Dmitry Likhachov. After her are Bernardo Dovizi, Maurice Sendak, Ferenc Kazinczy, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kostis Palamas, and Anthony Horowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Anne McCaffrey ranks 186. Before her are Alfred Pfaff, Mickey Hargitay, Frank Finlay, Johanna Quandt, Wolfgang Iser, and Mahasweta Devi. After her are Georges Lautner, Michael Bond, Richard Anderson, Ivica Horvat, André Delvaux, and Genrich Altshuller. Among people deceased in 2011, Anne McCaffrey ranks 145. Before her are Hind Rostom, Andrea True, Harri Holkeri, Anatole Abragam, Nirmala Srivastava, and Josip Katalinski. After her are Jackie Cooper, Bora Kostić, Sándor Képíró, Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Norio Ohga, and Kurt Sanderling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne McCaffrey ranks 3,616 out of 20,380. Before her are Dick Wolf (1946), Ethan Suplee (1976), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), Martha Chase (1927), Gina Gershon (1962), and James Denton (1963). After her are Ronnie Van Zant (1948), Maurice Sendak (1928), John Krasinski (1979), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), Edith Wilson (1872), and Marsha Hunt (1917).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne McCaffrey ranks 311. Before her are Varian Fry (1907), Larry Niven (1938), Carl Sandburg (1878), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Ben Hecht (1893), and William L. Shirer (1904). After her are Maurice Sendak (1928), Jonathan Franzen (1959), Jack Williamson (1908), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Lucia Berlin (1936), and Lawrence Block (1938).

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