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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 883,352 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Anne McCaffrey is the 2,499th most popular writer (down from 2,138th in 2019), the 3,243rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,673rd in 2019) and the 287th most popular American Writer.

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  • 880k

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  • 53.33

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne McCaffrey ranks 2,499 out of 5,755Before her are Emma Jung, William Peter Blatty, Francisco Ayala, Maciej Stryjkowski, Édouard Glissant, and E. Nesbit. After her are Vasko Popa, Larry Niven, Alessandro Baricco, Juan Ruiz, James Aldridge, and Jack Williamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Anne McCaffrey ranks 163Before her are Alfonso Sastre, Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, John G. Kemeny, Muhammad al-Badr, Richard Anderson, and Judith Malina. After her are Mahasweta Devi, Karel Kosík, Choi Eun-hee, Jambyn Batmönkh, Claudio Villa, and Konstantin Feoktistov. Among people deceased in 2011, Anne McCaffrey ranks 123Before her are Inese Jaunzeme, Jackie Cooper, Nikolai Andrianov, Kurt Sanderling, Lazar Mojsov, and Édouard Glissant. After her are Peter Yates, Loriot, Jesús María Pereda, Clarence Clemons, Randy Savage, and Farley Granger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne McCaffrey ranks 3,243 out of 18,182Before her are William Peter Blatty (1928), Alvin Hansen (1887), Brenda Lee (1944), Chris Gardner (1954), Josh Hartnett (1978), and Tia Carrere (1967). After her are Stone Cold Steve Austin (1964), Gene Amdahl (1922), Peter Cetera (1944), Max Baer (1909), Michael C. Hall (1971), and Larry Niven (1938).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne McCaffrey ranks 287Before her are Neil Simon (1927), Jim Thompson (1906), Howard Fast (1914), Richard Wright (1908), John Zerzan (1943), and William Peter Blatty (1928). After her are Larry Niven (1938), Jack Williamson (1908), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), Stephenie Meyer (1973), Eric Roth (1945), and Lawrence Block (1938).