WRITER

Anne Tyler

1941 - Today

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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Tyler has received more than 855,615 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Anne Tyler is the 3,195th most popular writer (up from 3,438th in 2019), the 4,059th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,540th in 2019) and the 344th most popular American Writer.

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  • 860k

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  • 52.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Tyler ranks 3,195 out of 7,302. Before her are Ildefonso Falcones, Naoya Shiga, Stefanie Zweig, Sigurd Hoel, Tiziano Terzani, and C. S. Forester. After her are José Giovanni, Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, Ruben Sevak, Caspar Barlaeus, and Giovanni Battista Giraldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Anne Tyler ranks 249. Before her are Steve Cropper, Randall Collins, Vitaly Solomin, Vladimir Lyakhov, Georges Heylens, and Desmond Dekker. After her are George Clinton, George Pell, Roberto Calasso, Lynne Cheney, Sally Kirkland, and Silvio Moser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Tyler ranks 4,059 out of 20,380. Before her are Gene Amdahl (1922), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Kate Walsh (1967), Robert Smith (1757), James Mangold (1963), and James Hillman (1926). After her are Jane Badler (1953), Margaux Hemingway (1954), Larry Clark (1943), Burl Ives (1909), David Koresh (1959), and George Crumb (1929).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Tyler ranks 344. Before her are Steve Berry (1955), Henrietta Szold (1860), Mike Mentzer (1951), Marianne Williamson (1952), Edward Gorey (1925), and Henry Kuttner (1915). After her are Jim Carroll (1949), Peter Benchley (1940), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), and Gregory Benford (1941).

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