WRITER

Anne Rice

1941 - 2021

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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Rice has received more than 5,165,375 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Anne Rice is the 1,144th most popular writer (down from 603rd in 2019), the 1,349th most popular biography from United States (down from 646th in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Writer.

Anne Rice is most famous for her novels, The Vampire Chronicles, which she published from 1976 to 2003.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

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  • 60.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Rice ranks 1,144 out of 7,302Before her are Arnold Zweig, Bulat Okudzhava, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Monique Wittig, Léon Bloy, and Cornelius Gallus. After her are Antoine François Prévost, Gottfried Keller, Vidyapati, Lao She, Mavro Orbini, and Hugo Gernsback.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Anne Rice ranks 91Before her are Kyu Sakamoto, Eric Burdon, Aimé Jacquet, Kenji Tochio, Eduardo Duhalde, and Stephen Frears. After her are Martin Evans, Suzanne Mubarak, Alfred G. Gilman, Igor Smirnov, Toyo Ito, and Jacqueline Boyer. Among people deceased in 2021, Anne Rice ranks 63Before her are Toshihide Maskawa, E. O. Wilson, Abimael Guzmán, Michel Fourniret, Larry King, and Richard Donner. After her are Jehan Sadat, Edita Gruberová, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Hal Holbrook, Lina Wertmüller, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Rice ranks 1,349 out of 20,380Before her are Ben Gazzara (1930), Kris Kristofferson (1936), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Anthony Mann (1906), Robin Wright (1966), and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934). After her are Alan J. Heeger (1936), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Linda Lee Cadwell (1945), Frank Borman (1928), Mark Spitz (1950), and John Mott (1865).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Rice ranks 128Before her are Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Michael Connelly (1956), Norman Mailer (1923), John Grisham (1955), John Updike (1932), and Fredric Brown (1906). After her are E. Howard Hunt (1918), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Solomon Northup (1808), Dan Simmons (1948), Ida Tarbell (1857), and Martha Gellhorn (1908).