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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. He 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 530,464 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bret Harte is the 3,799th most popular writer (down from 3,305th in 2019), the 5,085th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,367th in 2019) and the 428th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bret Harte ranks 3,799 out of 5,755. Before him are Dominique Fernandez, Kočo Racin, Saul Alinsky, Maxwell Anderson, Torgny Lindgren, and Aleksandar Tišma. After him are Cecco Angiolieri, Kim Stanley Robinson, James Redfield, Mary Renault, Jędrzej Śniadecki, and Václav Hanka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Bret Harte ranks 56. Before him are Alfred Grandidier, Edward Poynter, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Ernst von Bergmann, Norman Lockyer, and Emil Hartmann. After him are Ferdinand Monoyer, Robert Swinhoe, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Adolf Schwarz, Isabella Beeton, and Jay Gould. Among people deceased in 1902, Bret Harte ranks 52. Before him are Clémence Royer, Mark Antokolsky, Kálmán Tisza, Andrejs Pumpurs, Dmitry Sipyagin, and Julia Grant. After him are Gustave Trouvé, Antanas Baranauskas, Almon Brown Strowger, Frederick Abel, Hervé Faye, and Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bret Harte ranks 5,085 out of 18,182. Before him are Burt Ward (1945), Brian Thompson (1959), Titus Welliver (1962), Luke Wilson (1971), Amanda Peet (1972), and Billy Burke (1966). After him are George C. Williams (1926), Will Yun Lee (1971), Rodney Dangerfield (1921), Newt Gingrich (1943), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), and Jack Albertson (1907).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bret Harte ranks 428. Before him are Ron Kovic (1946), C. J. Cherryh (1942), V. C. Andrews (1923), James Thurber (1894), Saul Alinsky (1909), and Maxwell Anderson (1888). After him are Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), James Redfield (1950), Aaron Sorkin (1961), Peter Straub (1943), Paula Fox (1923), and Nathanael West (1903).

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