WRITER

Crane Wilbur

1886 - 1973

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Crane Wilbur (November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973) was an American writer, actor and director for stage, radio and screen. He was born in Athens, New York. Wilbur is best remembered for playing Harry Marvin in The Perils of Pauline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Crane Wilbur has received more than 66,496 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Crane Wilbur is the 6,043rd most popular writer (down from 5,685th in 2019), the 9,982nd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,313th in 2019) and the 749th most popular American Writer.

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  • 66k

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  • 43.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Situation of the Story
Short stories, Fiction, Young men
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, The Comforts of Home 3 ANN BEATTIE, It's Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22 MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37 EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62 WILLIAM GOYEN, Tapioca Surprise 73 STEPHEN CRANE, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky 83 WILLIAM FAULKNER, [Barn Burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) CONRAD AIKEN, Strange Moonlight 113 ELIZABETH SPENCER, Moon Rocket 124 TRUMAN CAPOTE, Children on Their Birthdays 133 JOHN UPDIKE, A & P 148 ALICE MUNRO, Miles City, Montana 155 LEE K. ABBOTT, The End of Grief 175 ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Day's Wait 187 ELLEN WILBUR, Wind and Birds and Human Voices JOYCE CAROL OATES, Theft 214 BHARATI MUKHERJEE, The Tenant 255 AMY TAN, Rules of the Game 268 LOUISE ERDRICH, Love Medicine 279 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper 301 TONI CADE BAMBARA, Maggie of the Green Bottles 316 ANTON CHEKHOV, The Darling 323 D. H. LAWRENCE, The Lovely Lady 334 HENRY JAMES, Paste 350 WILLA CATHER, The Way of the World 364 VIRGINIA WOOLF, Lappin and Lapinova 377 ZORA NEALE HURSTON, The Gilded Six-Bits 385 JAMES JOYCE, The Dead 395 DORIS LESSING, To Room Nineteen 431 TILLIE OLSEN, I Stand Here Ironing 460 RAYMOND CARVER, Boxes 467 GLORIA NAYLOR, The Two 481 SHIRLEY JACKSON, Flower Garden, 489 REGINALD McKNlGHT, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas 511 HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES, The Cariboo cafe 522 JOHN EDGAR WIDE-MAN, Fever 535 ANNA LEE WALTERS, The Warriors 558 GEORGE GARRETT, An Evening Performance 573 CHARLES JOHNSON, China 581 ESTELA PORTILLO TRAMBLEY, Pay the Criers 598 EDGAR ALLAN POE, [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Grave 623 ALLEN BARNETT, The Times As It Knows Us 629 BERNARD MALAMUD, Angel Levine 675 EDITH WHARTON, Afterward 685 SARAH ORNE JEWETT, The Landscape Chamber 711 FRANZ KAFKA, A Report to an Academy 725 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Drowne's Wooden Image 733 HERMAN MELVILLE, [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) JOHN CHEEVER, Torch Song 775
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment
Great American Short Stories
American fiction, short stories, American Horror tales
Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Fall of the house of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- [Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W/Wash) / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime
Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) by Ambrose Bierce ... - [A Pair of Silk Stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W/A_Pair_of_Silk_Stockings) by Kate Chopin - [The Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) - [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) - [The Glass Menagerie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30293W) by Tennesse Williams
Ropes of sand
Foreign relations, Diplomats, Biography
The United States in Literature
memory plays, autobiographical drama, Family
Reader includes: [Glass Menagerie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30293W/The_Glass_Menagerie) by Tennesse Williams

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Crane Wilbur ranks 6,043 out of 7,302Before him are René Benjamin, Danièle Sallenave, Ravindra Kelekar, Kenneth Rexroth, Izaak Walton, and Buchi Emecheta. After him are Armistead Maupin, Su Tong, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Tony Kushner, Cyril Collard, and Emmanuil Kazakevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Crane Wilbur ranks 285Before him are Edu Snethlage, Richard Mulcahy, Árpád Tóth, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, and Alexander Wetmore. After him are Karl Dane, Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský, Alexander Drankov, Jeanie MacPherson, Otto Authén, and Nellie Sengupta. Among people deceased in 1973, Crane Wilbur ranks 268Before him are Piero Drogo, Hans Haas, Manuel Rojas, Henrique da Silveira, James Wilson, and J. Carrol Naish. After him are Steven Geray, Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, Alphonse Lacroix, Armando Segato, Nellie Sengupta, and James Anderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Crane Wilbur ranks 9,982 out of 20,380Before him are Beah Richards (1920), Susan Collins (1952), Diana Serra Cary (1918), Ted Stevens (1923), Michael Novak (1933), and Vicki Peterson (1958). After him are Armistead Maupin (1944), Penny Hardaway (1971), Rufus King (1755), Erin Gray (1950), Ryan White (1971), and Bruce Broughton (1945).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Crane Wilbur ranks 749Before him are Nella Larsen (1891), Anna J. Cooper (1858), Dick Cavett (1936), Andy Weir (1972), Scott Turow (1949), and Kenneth Rexroth (1905). After him are Armistead Maupin (1944), Tony Kushner (1956), Gustav Hasford (1947), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), Charles Brackett (1892), and John Perry Barlow (1947).