1936 - Today
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don DeLillo has received more than 2,143,962 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Don DeLillo is the 1,322nd most popular writer (up from 1,365th in 2019), the 1,663rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,629th in 2019) and the 157th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Don DeLillo ranks 1,322 out of 5,755. Before him are Magda Szabó, Stéphane Hessel, Kjell Askildsen, Robert Sheckley, Hayim Nahman Bialik, and Cees Nooteboom. After him are Konstantin Simonov, Xavier de Maistre, Siegfried Kracauer, Liang Qichao, Joseph Karo, and Vladimir Bartol.
1917 - 2007
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,316
1917 - 2013
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,317
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,318
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,319
1873 - 1934
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,320
1933 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,321
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,322
1915 - 1979
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,323
1763 - 1852
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,324
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,325
1873 - 1929
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,326
1488 - 1575
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,327
1903 - 1967
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,328
Among people born in 1936, Don DeLillo ranks 84. Before him are Moussa Traoré, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Leonid Kuravlyov, Valerie Solanas, Ljubiša Samardžić, and Paul L. Smith. After him are Frank Stella, David Yonggi Cho, Kenneth G. Wilson, Joe D'Amato, Alan Alda, and Raymond Poulidor.
1936 - 2020
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 78
1936 - 2020
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 79
1936 - 2022
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 80
1936 - 1988
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 81
1936 - 2017
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 82
1936 - 2012
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 83
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 84
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 85
1936 - 2021
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 86
1936 - 2013
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 87
1936 - 1999
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 88
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 89
1936 - 2019
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 90
Among people born in United States, Don DeLillo ranks 1,663 out of 18,182. Before him are Mildred Harris (1901), John Fogerty (1945), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), Robert Sheckley (1928), Chuck Yeager (1923), and Will.i.am (1975). After him are Dave Mustaine (1961), Alan Kay (1940), Frank Stella (1936), Lee Remick (1935), Ornette Coleman (1930), and William C. Durant (1861).
1901 - 1944
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 1,657
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,658
1990 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,659
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,660
1923 - 2020
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,661
1975 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,662
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,663
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,664
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,665
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,666
1935 - 1991
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,667
1930 - 2015
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,668
1861 - 1947
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,669
Among writers born in United States, Don DeLillo ranks 157. Before him are Anthony Bourdain (1956), R. L. Stine (1943), Robin Hobb (1952), James Baldwin (1924), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), and Robert Sheckley (1928). After him are Robert Bloch (1917), Joyce Carol Oates (1938), William Styron (1925), Samuel R. Delany (1942), James Oliver Curwood (1878), and Edward Albee (1928).
1956 - 2018
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 151
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 152
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 153
1924 - 1987
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 154
1832 - 1907
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 155
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 156
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 157
1917 - 1994
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 158
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 159
1925 - 2006
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 160
1942 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 161
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 162
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 163