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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 396,137 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Daniel Quinn is the 4,925th most popular writer (down from 4,415th in 2019), the 7,265th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,412th in 2019) and the 589th most popular American Writer.

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  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Quinn ranks 4,925 out of 5,755. Before him are Júlia Szendrey, Pauline Kael, Eva Kotchever, Pentti Saarikoski, Conrad Aiken, and Lev Kassil. After him are Henry Home, Lord Kames, Kjell Westö, Steven Moffat, Jorge Icaza Coronel, George Holyoake, and František Halas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Daniel Quinn ranks 344. Before him are Stanley Norman Cohen, David Pegg, Luigi Radice, Halina Poświatowska, Paul A. Rothchild, and Steve Lawrence. After him are Mona Malm, José Luandino Vieira, Ramsey Lewis, Željko Matuš, Andrey Zaliznyak, and Hubert Hahne. Among people deceased in 2018, Daniel Quinn ranks 325. Before him are Hal Greer, Paddy Ashdown, Luigi Radice, Ion Ciubuc, Ilie Balaci, and Madalena Iglésias. After him are Rubén Galván, Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Mac Miller, Fadil Vokrri, Al Matthews, and Yelena Shushunova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Quinn ranks 7,265 out of 18,182. Before him are Denise Crosby (1957), Edward Everett (1794), Nancy Wilson (1954), Conrad Aiken (1889), John Oliver Creighton (1943), and Lucy Webb Hayes (1831). After him are James Van Der Beek (1977), Booker T (1965), Bill Bradley (1943), Dianna Agron (1986), Jackson Scholz (1897), and Pat Robertson (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Daniel Quinn ranks 589. Before him are Lester del Rey (1915), Ring Lardner (1885), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Pauline Kael (1919), and Conrad Aiken (1889). After him are James C. Collins (1958), Nicholas Meyer (1945), Scott O'Dell (1898), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), Peter S. Beagle (1939), and Susanna Kaysen (1948).

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