WRITER

Dan Simmons

1948 - Today

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Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Simmons has received more than 1,772,968 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Dan Simmons is the 1,200th most popular writer (down from 1,197th in 2019), the 1,408th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,467th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Writer.

Dan Simmons is most famous for his novel Hyperion, which won the Hugo and Locus Awards.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dan Simmons ranks 1,200 out of 7,302. Before him are Elizabeth Gaskell, Radegund, Subramania Bharati, Max Nordau, Pierre de Marivaux, and Aristophanes of Byzantium. After him are Alexander Kielland, Reinaldo Arenas, Ibn Khallikan, Roger Caillois, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Odoric of Pordenone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Dan Simmons ranks 78. Before him are Steven Chu, Agnieszka Holland, Nathalie Baye, Alia Al-Hussein, Ray Kurzweil, and René Arnoux. After him are Hartmut Michel, William Daniel Phillips, Beppe Grillo, Giorgio Parisi, Siim Kallas, and Ruud Geels.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Simmons ranks 1,408 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert A. Dahl (1915), Sarah Knauss (1880), Peter Weller (1947), Martha Nussbaum (1947), G. Stanley Hall (1846), and Alan Bean (1932). After him are Adrien Brody (1973), Charles G. Dawes (1865), Ida Tarbell (1857), David Schwimmer (1966), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), and John Cena (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dan Simmons ranks 132. Before him are John Updike (1932), Fredric Brown (1906), Anne Rice (1941), E. Howard Hunt (1918), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), and Solomon Northup (1808). After him are Ida Tarbell (1857), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Harry Harrison (1925), James Patterson (1947), Irving Stone (1903), and Clive Cussler (1931).

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