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Delia Owens

1949 - Today

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Delia Owens (born April 4, 1949) is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist. She is best known for her 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing. Owens was born and grew up in southern Georgia, where she spent most of her life in or near true wilderness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Delia Owens has received more than 1,968,576 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Delia Owens is the 4,510th most popular writer, the 6,053rd most popular biography from United States and the 483rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.0M

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  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Delia Owens ranks 4,510 out of 7,302Before her are Ivan Olbracht, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Uwe Timm, Hasrat Mohani, and Dumitru Stăniloae. After her are Louis Henri Boussenard, Oskar Pastior, Terenci Moix, Piero Angela, Janko Kráľ, and Claude Mauriac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Delia Owens ranks 379Before her are Bob Ezrin, Carlos Gomes Júnior, Ed Begley Jr., Pia Degermark, John Boehner, and Stan Hansen. After her are Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Helena Fibingerová, Tom Verlaine, Steven Williams, Odilo Scherer, and Arjun Appadurai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Delia Owens ranks 6,053 out of 20,380Before her are Roger McGuinn (1942), Jack Northrop (1895), Nicky Hayden (1981), Anna Harrison (1775), David A. Huffman (1925), and Larry Brown (1940). After her are Mike Todd (1909), Carol Channing (1921), Wynton Kelly (1931), Brian Greene (1963), Shannon Elizabeth (1973), and Kenny Dorham (1924).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Delia Owens ranks 483Before her are Norman Vincent Peale (1898), Brian Herbert (1947), Helen Thomas (1920), Julia Quinn (1970), Tracy Chevalier (1962), and Reginald Rose (1920). After her are C. J. Cherryh (1942), Amy Lowell (1874), E. E. Smith (1890), Timothy Zahn (1951), Norman Spinrad (1940), and Russell Kirk (1918).