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David Eddings

1931 - 2009

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David Carroll Eddings (July 7, 1931 – June 2, 2009) was an American fantasy writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Eddings has received more than 1,090,139 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). David Eddings is the 3,411th most popular writer (down from 2,765th in 2019), the 4,341st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,623rd in 2019) and the 359th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Eddings ranks 3,411 out of 7,302. Before him are Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Augusto Genina, Mikhail Koltsov, Jiří Wolker, Grace Elliott, and Lev Nussimbaum. After him are Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, J. B. Priestley, Kafū Nagai, Joyce Meyer, John Osborne, and John Evelyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, David Eddings ranks 252. Before him are Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Lê Khả Phiêu, Jean Béliveau, Ruy Guerra, Bernard Francis Law, and Bruno Mattei. After him are Hana Brady, Tosiwo Nakayama, Zaur Kaloev, Rogelio Domínguez, Mickey Mantle, and Alvin Ailey. Among people deceased in 2009, David Eddings ranks 163. Before him are Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Dušan Džamonja, Lyudmila Zykina, Hildegard Behrens, Mike Bongiorno, and Ekaterina Maximova. After him are Yukio Endo, Helen Levitt, Zequinha, František Veselý, Chuck Daly, and Dan O'Bannon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Eddings ranks 4,341 out of 20,380. Before him are Dyan Cannon (1937), Richard M. Karp (1935), Margo Martindale (1951), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Afrika Bambaataa (1957), and Tim Matheson (1947). After him are Carl Panzram (1892), Lilla Cabot Perry (1848), Julie Kavner (1950), Virginia Mayo (1920), Ray Walston (1914), and Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, David Eddings ranks 359. Before him are Douglas Preston (1956), Robert McKee (1941), Morgan Robertson (1861), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Fanny Crosby (1820), and Spencer Johnson (1938). After him are Joyce Meyer (1943), Booker T. Washington (1856), Betty Mahmoody (1945), Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), and Peter Straub (1943).

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