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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 814,032 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anne Tyler is the 3,450th most popular writer (down from 3,212th in 2019), the 4,552nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,200th in 2019) and the 389th most popular American Writer.

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  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Tyler ranks 3,450 out of 5,755. Before her are David Albahari, Altaf Hussain Hali, Txillardegi, Jean Effel, Don Miguel Ruiz, and István Örkény. After her are Francesco de Sanctis, Pavel Bazhov, Siegfried Sassoon, Marianne Moore, Ramón Chao, and Jaroslav Vrchlický.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Anne Tyler ranks 279. Before her are David Crystal, Bakili Muluzi, Randall Collins, Gorden Kaye, Christopher Hogwood, and Navi Pillay. After her are Ivanka Khristova, Ed Roberts, Tomaž Šalamun, Mary Alice, Robert Keohane, and Mario Corso.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Tyler ranks 4,552 out of 18,182. Before her are Leonard Adleman (1945), Yogi Berra (1925), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), and Sharon Gless (1943). After her are Billy Paul (1934), Henry Paulson (1946), Movita Castaneda (1916), Richard Linklater (1960), Amy Lee (1981), and Leon Fleisher (1928).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Tyler ranks 389. Before her are Charles Fort (1874), Vince Gilligan (1967), Michael Cristofer (1945), Lillian Hellman (1905), Francis Scott Key (1779), and Robert Ettinger (1918). After her are Marianne Moore (1887), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Varian Fry (1907), Carl Bernstein (1944), Herman Wouk (1915), and Janet Asimov (1926).

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