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Chris Van Allsburg

1949 - Today

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Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote, and were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Van Allsburg has received more than 1,256,257 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Chris Van Allsburg is the 5,045th most popular writer (down from 4,346th in 2019), the 7,094th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,031st in 2019) and the 562nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chris Van Allsburg ranks 5,045 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahlam Mosteghanemi, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Adolf Born, Steven Pressfield, Karolina Světlá, and Han Yong-un. After him are René Maran, Jean Aicard, Walter J. Ong, Peter S. Beagle, Naomi Klein, and Mahmud Taymur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Chris Van Allsburg ranks 467. Before him are Rudy Hartono, Mwepu Ilunga, Olga Morozova, Arlindo Gomes Furtado, Rakesh Roshan, and Charles Roven. After him are Fayez Tarawneh, Shlomo Artzi, Valeriu Muravschi, Orani João Tempesta, Vladimír Martinec, and Pavel Lungin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chris Van Allsburg ranks 7,094 out of 20,380. Before him are Haley Joel Osment (1988), Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Tina Weymouth (1950), Frankie Knuckles (1955), Terry Bradshaw (1948), and Charles Roven (1949). After him are Thaddeus Stevens (1792), Curly Howard (1903), Roy Thomas (1940), Doris Humphrey (1895), Krysten Ritter (1981), and Regis Philbin (1931).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Chris Van Allsburg ranks 562. Before him are William Dean Howells (1837), Kenneth Copeland (1936), Sidney Howard (1891), Joanna Russ (1937), Paul Theroux (1941), and William Gibson (1914). After him are Walter J. Ong (1912), Peter S. Beagle (1939), Frank O'Hara (1926), Michael Cristofer (1945), Stephen Hunter (1946), and Elaine May (1932).

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