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Charles Brockden Brown

1771 - 1810

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Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period. Brown is regarded by some scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings, poetry, historiography, and reviews) makes him a crucial figure in literature of the early republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Brockden Brown has received more than 185,974 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Brockden Brown is the 4,396th most popular writer (down from 3,589th in 2019), the 5,864th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,772nd in 2019) and the 472nd most popular American Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Brockden Brown ranks 4,396 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Bradstreet, Olivier de Serres, Robert Chambers, Franz von Schober, Mario Rigoni Stern, and Roderich Menzel. After him are Richard Steele, Graham Swift, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Norman Lear, Vladimir Dudintsev, and David Baldacci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Charles Brockden Brown ranks 43. Before him are Jean Broc, Jean Reynier, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Karl Rudolphi, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, and George Bass. After him are Hans Nielsen Hauge, Thomas Wedgwood, Pierre-François Bouchard, Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Heinrich Zschokke, and Justo Figuerola. Among people deceased in 1810, Charles Brockden Brown ranks 29. Before him are George Prideaux Robert Harris, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Said bin Ahmad, Johan Zoffany, and Daniel Gottlob Türk. After him are John Hoppner, Johann Gottfried Seume, William Martin, Tomás António Gonzaga, and Sarah Trimmer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Brockden Brown ranks 5,864 out of 20,380. Before him are Khandi Alexander (1957), Chad Stahelski (1968), Louise Dresser (1878), Mark Tobey (1890), Benjamin Orr (1947), and Jacqueline Cochran (1906). After him are Yuri Lowenthal (1971), Butler Lampson (1943), Norman Lear (1922), George Ritzer (1940), Tay Garnett (1894), and David Baldacci (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Charles Brockden Brown ranks 472. Before him are Connie Willis (1945), Larry Collins (1929), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), William Gaddis (1922), William Wharton (1925), and Arthur Golden (1956). After him are Norman Lear (1922), David Baldacci (1960), Anna Katharine Green (1846), Greg Bear (1951), Norman Vincent Peale (1898), and Brian Herbert (1947).

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