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Bret Harte

1836 - 1902

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Bret Harte ( HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches. Harte moved from California to the eastern U.S. and later to Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bret Harte has received more than 560,589 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Bret Harte is the 4,049th most popular writer (down from 3,786th in 2019), the 5,311th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,073rd in 2019) and the 434th most popular American Writer.

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  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bret Harte ranks 4,049 out of 7,302. Before him are Alaa Al Aswany, Ivan Shmelyov, Simon Leys, Cecco Angiolieri, Karel Teige, and Anna Langfus. After him are Chairil Anwar, Marcel Jouhandeau, James Redfield, Jan Kott, E. B. White, and Gary Chapman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Bret Harte ranks 59. Before him are Edward Poynter, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Ernst von Bergmann, and Georg August Schweinfurth. After him are Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Émile Étienne Guimet, Emil Hartmann, Robert Swinhoe, John W. Foster, and W. S. Gilbert. Among people deceased in 1902, Bret Harte ranks 57. Before him are Julia Grant, Count Richard Belcredi, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Hervé Faye, and Mark Antokolsky. After him are Aisha Taymur, Antanas Baranauskas, John Wesley Powell, Salomon Jadassohn, Princess Marie of Nassau, and Dmitry Sipyagin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bret Harte ranks 5,311 out of 20,380. Before him are John King Fairbank (1907), Albert Collins (1932), Morgan Taylor (1903), William Daniels (1927), Marie Colvin (1956), and Jon Postel (1943). After him are Robert Axelrod (1943), Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Harry Langdon (1884), Bob Kiesel (1911), Timothy Treadwell (1957), and David Sanborn (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bret Harte ranks 434. Before him are Lloyd Alexander (1924), Syd Field (1935), Elbert Hubbard (1856), Murray Leinster (1896), Russell Banks (1940), and V. C. Andrews (1923). After him are James Redfield (1950), E. B. White (1899), Gary Chapman (1938), Daniel Silva (1960), David Crane (1957), and T. C. Boyle (1948).

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