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Carol Shields

1935 - 2003

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Carol Ann Shields (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carol Shields has received more than 270,744 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Carol Shields is the 5,824th most popular writer (down from 5,669th in 2019), the 9,095th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,221st in 2019) and the 692nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carol Shields ranks 5,824 out of 7,302. Before her are Thomas Linacre, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Fatos Arapi, Miho Mosulishvili, Ann Bannon, and Thomas Campbell. After her are Bess Meredyth, Vasily Belov, Axel Merckx, Shaqe Çoba, Léon Frapié, and Chaz Bono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Carol Shields ranks 447. Before her are Héctor Hernández, Mona Malm, Jeremy Kemp, Massimo Natili, Agnes Simon, and Justin Francis Rigali. After her are György Kárpáti, Hans Sturm, Tibor Pézsa, Eldridge Cleaver, Steve Lawrence, and Leonel Mário d'Alva. Among people deceased in 2003, Carol Shields ranks 304. Before her are German Apukhtin, Conrad Hall, Jan-Just Bos, Curt Hennig, Valentin Gavrilov, and Sven Fahlman. After her are Bruno Boni, Peter Hacks, Zagir Ismagilov, Trevor Goddard, Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, and José Manuel Pesudo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carol Shields ranks 9,095 out of 20,380. Before her are Luke Askew (1932), Charles Clary (1873), Dorothy Janis (1912), Wendy Sherman (1949), Ann Bannon (1932), and Robin Beck (1954). After her are Adriano Directo Emperado (1926), Faye Grant (1957), Albert Salmi (1928), Bess Meredyth (1890), Evelyn Brent (1895), and Cliff DeYoung (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Carol Shields ranks 692. Before her are Avram Davidson (1923), Edward Abbey (1927), Iris Chang (1968), Sarah Orne Jewett (1849), Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850), and Ann Bannon (1932). After her are Bess Meredyth (1890), Chaz Bono (1969), M. Scott Peck (1936), Akiva Goldsman (1962), Robinson Jeffers (1887), and Judy Blume (1938).

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