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Charles Fort

1874 - 1932

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Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Fort has received more than 789,041 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Charles Fort is the 3,622nd most popular writer (down from 3,354th in 2019), the 4,644th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,406th in 2019) and the 386th most popular American Writer.

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  • 790k

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  • 57.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Fort ranks 3,622 out of 7,302. Before him are Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Jan Brzechwa, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, John Mauropous, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, and Vsevolod Ivanov. After him are Orientius, Ida Vitale, Nicholas Rémy, Johannes Jørgensen, Kurd Lasswitz, and Anthony Berkeley Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Charles Fort ranks 128. Before him are Mary Ann Bevan, Alexander Khatisian, Manuel Díaz, Francis Lane, Juan Bautista Sacasa, and Nasrullah Khan. After him are Władysław Grabski, Dimitrios Golemis, Billy Meredith, Theodore Lyman IV, Frederic Clements, and Ephraim Moses Lilien. Among people deceased in 1932, Charles Fort ranks 83. Before him are Arnošt Muka, Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, Zhang Zongchang, Augusto B. Leguía, Hafez Ibrahim, and Josephine Crowell. After him are Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Gertrude Jekyll, Karl Blossfeldt, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, and Ali Rıza Pasha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Fort ranks 4,644 out of 20,380. Before him are Savanna Samson (1967), Julie Adams (1926), Marilyn Horne (1934), D'arcy Wretzky (1968), Herman Kahn (1922), and Paul Alexander (1946). After him are Olivia Wilde (1984), Norman Holter (1914), Evelyne Hall (1909), Al Jardine (1942), Emmy Rossum (1986), and Louis Leon Thurstone (1887).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Charles Fort ranks 386. Before him are Cotton Mather (1663), Gene Wolfe (1931), Joss Whedon (1964), Robert W. Chambers (1865), Emma Lazarus (1849), and James Tiptree Jr. (1915). After him are Lillian Hellman (1905), John Ashbery (1927), Richard Yates (1926), Marta Kauffman (1956), Helen Churchill Candee (1858), and Thomas Friedman (1953).

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