WRITER

Clifford D. Simak

1904 - 1988

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Clifford Donald Simak (; August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clifford D. Simak has received more than 365,290 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Clifford D. Simak is the 920th most popular writer (down from 883rd in 2019), the 1,029th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,042nd in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Writer.

Clifford D. Simak is most famous for his science fiction novels, which often explore the idea of intelligent life on other planets.

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  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The werewolf principle
Fiction
19674 / 5
Enchanted pilgrimage
1975
City
1952
Way station
1963
All Flesh Is Grass
1965
The goblin reservation
1968

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Clifford D. Simak ranks 920 out of 7,302. Before him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Anna Seghers, Walter Lippmann, Božena Němcová, and Thomas Wolfe. After him are Jacques Clément, James May, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Miep Gies, Lucius Accius, and Vinicius de Moraes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak ranks 44. Before him are Alejo Carpentier, Lucile Randon, Willem de Kooning, Odilo Globočnik, Joseph Campbell, and Nikolai Ostrovsky. After him are Otto Robert Frisch, Héctor Castro, Karl Rahner, Nikolai Kuznetsov, John Gielgud, and Gerhard Herzberg. Among people deceased in 1988, Clifford D. Simak ranks 24. Before him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Raymond Carver, John Holmes, Kim Philby, Tibor Sekelj, and Felix Wankel. After him are Virginia Satir, Richard S. Castellano, Hiroaki Sato, Gert Fröbe, Luis Barragán, and Valerie Solanas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clifford D. Simak ranks 1,029 out of 20,380. Before him are W. Edwards Deming (1900), Paul Allen (1953), Cass Elliot (1941), Michael Jai White (1967), Edward Tatum (1909), and Thomas Wolfe (1900). After him are Mary Jackson (1921), Forest Whitaker (1961), Leon Festinger (1919), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Randy Couture (1963), and David Hasselhoff (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Clifford D. Simak ranks 100. Before him are Daniel Goleman (1946), Roger Zelazny (1937), Sherwood Anderson (1876), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Walter Lippmann (1889), and Thomas Wolfe (1900). After him are Thomas Pynchon (1937), Joyce Carol Oates (1938), Nellie Bly (1864), James Jones (1921), L. Frank Baum (1856), and Virginia Satir (1916).

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