WRITER

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 519,675 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Cressy
Classic Literature, Fiction
As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and otherwise assumed the severe demeanor of his profession and his mature age - which was at least twenty. Not that he usually felt this an assumption; it was a firm conviction of his serious nature that he impressed others, as he did himself, with the blended austerity and ennui of deep and exhausted experience.
1889
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Western stories, Short stories, Poetry
1869
Condensed novels
Western stories, Social life and customs, Fiction
1867
Sally Dows
Western stories
1887
The Story of a Mine
Fiction, Mines and mineral resources, Western stories
1877
The poetical works of Bret Harte
American poetry
1789

Page views of Bret Hartes by language

Over the past year Bret Harte has had the most page views in the with 62,293 views, followed by Russian (8,418), and Spanish (2,939). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (410.87%), Javanese (130.48%), and Basque (55.25%)

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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