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Daniel Keyes

1927 - 2014

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Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Keyes has received more than 708,831 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Daniel Keyes is the 808th most popular writer (up from 972nd in 2019), the 906th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,150th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Writer.

Daniel Keyes is most famous for writing the book, Flowers for Algernon.

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  • 710k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Keyes ranks 808 out of 7,302. Before him are Jamal Khashoggi, Sarojini Naidu, Tatian, Karl Harrer, Jan Potocki, and Thomas Hardy. After him are Magtymguly Pyragy, Max Frisch, Dobrica Ćosić, John le Carré, Basava, and Odysseas Elytis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Daniel Keyes ranks 41. Before him are Manfred Eigen, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Emmanuelle Riva, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Angelo Sodano, and Robert Ludlum. After him are Hugo Pratt, Don Shirley, Harry Mulisch, Harry Markowitz, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and George Andrew Olah. Among people deceased in 2014, Daniel Keyes ranks 36. Before him are Martin Lewis Perl, Adolfo Suárez, Lorin Maazel, Jack Brabham, Masaru Emoto, and Maya Angelou. After him are Dobrica Ćosić, Mickey Rooney, Karlheinz Böhm, Luise Rainer, P. D. James, and Yozo Aoki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Keyes ranks 906 out of 20,380. Before him are James Cromwell (1940), Jimmy Connors (1952), Asaph Hall (1829), John B. Calhoun (1917), Richard Rorty (1931), and Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932). After him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Lewis Strauss (1896), John Lee Hooker (1917), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Frederick Reines (1918), and Herbert A. Hauptman (1917).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Daniel Keyes ranks 86. Before him are Thomas Harris (1940), Neal Cassady (1926), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Raymond Carver (1938), Leon Uris (1924), and Maya Angelou (1928). After him are Neale Donald Walsch (1943), John Fante (1909), Ambrose Bierce (1842), Dashiell Hammett (1894), Joseph Campbell (1904), and Marilyn vos Savant (1946).

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