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Edmund White

1940 - Today

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Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. White's books include Forgetting Elena (1973), described by Vladimir Nabokov as 'marvelous'; Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978); States of Desire (1980); and his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund White has received more than 402,598 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund White is the 5,670th most popular writer (down from 5,286th in 2019), the 8,651st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,445th in 2019) and the 666th most popular American Writer.

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  • 400k

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  • 45.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edmund White ranks 5,670 out of 7,302. Before him are Sapardi Djoko Damono, Yakov Polonsky, Paul Arène, H. A. Rey, Kevin Kelly, and Mario Luzi. After him are Casimiro de Abreu, Marmaduke Pickthall, James Hogg, William Michael Rossetti, Ernest Dowson, and Martin Litchfield West.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Edmund White ranks 478. Before him are Thue Christiansen, Joe Torre, Willi Holdorf, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, Sven-Gunnar Larsson, and Sapardi Djoko Damono. After him are Nicolae Lupescu, Marco Maciel, Dmitri Prigov, Taylor Wang, Carol Heiss, and Vyacheslav Starshinov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund White ranks 8,651 out of 20,380. Before him are Chris Barnes (1967), Nestor Serrano (1955), Dan Fogler (1976), Bobby Joe Long (1953), Pat Carroll (1927), and Nancy Richey (1942). After him are Ann Richards (1933), Clint Howard (1959), Shelly Manne (1920), Robert Jarvik (1946), Todd Field (1964), and David Jenkins (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edmund White ranks 666. Before him are Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Kate Wilhelm (1928), MacKenzie Scott (1970), William Blum (1933), Michael Shermer (1954), and Kevin Kelly (1952). After him are Alison Lurie (1926), Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Lew Rockwell (1944), Donald Richie (1924), and John Holt (1923).

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