WRITER

Daniel Quinn

1935 - 2018

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Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Quinn has received more than 422,193 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Daniel Quinn is the 5,964th most popular writer (down from 4,908th in 2019), the 9,608th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,250th in 2019) and the 725th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

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  • 44.12

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

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  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ishmael
Fiction, Gorilla, Human ecology
Beyond civilization
Civilization, Human ecology, Philosophy
In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a "New World Order" but a "New Personal World Order" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Helladian vistas
Orthodox Eastern Church, Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, Description and travel
Dreamer
The Bradbury Chronicles. Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury
Labor-management relations
Industrial relations

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Quinn ranks 5,964 out of 7,302Before him are José Jiménez Lozano, François Nourissier, James Dickey, Robert J. Sawyer, Hugh Blair, and Damon Lindelof. After him are Lucía Etxebarría, Monika Fagerholm, Rói Patursson, Winston Churchill, Walter Lord, and Teréz Karacs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Daniel Quinn ranks 466Before him are Győző Forintos, Jim Hall, Anaid Iplicjian, Claude Esteban, Susan Cooper, and Arvo Valton. After him are Victor Chizhikov, Vicente Cantatore, Mitsuo Ikeda, Derek Kevan, Larry Kramer, and Sylvia Robinson. Among people deceased in 2018, Daniel Quinn ranks 448Before him are Benny Andersen, Michel Bonnevie, Randy Weston, Mary Midgley, Juris Silovs, and Jeanne Ashworth. After him are Anatoly Lein, Nicanor de Carvalho, Ed King, Muhibbe Darga, Mort Walker, and Asma Jahangir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Quinn ranks 9,608 out of 20,380Before him are D. H. Peligro (1959), Alex English (1954), Suzanne Ciani (1946), Jeanne Ashworth (1938), Damon Lindelof (1973), and Richard Maibaum (1909). After him are Winston Churchill (1871), Andrew Hampsten (1962), Toni Frissell (1907), Ray Gillen (1959), Paul Pilgrim (1883), and Robert Marshak (1916).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Daniel Quinn ranks 725Before him are Alvah Bessie (1904), William Inge (1913), Wilma Mankiller (1945), J. Michael Straczynski (1954), James Dickey (1923), and Damon Lindelof (1973). After him are Winston Churchill (1871), Walter Lord (1917), Michael Parenti (1933), Tom Brokaw (1940), Richard Russo (1949), and Sarah Moore Grimké (1792).