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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. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund White has received more than 375,998 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edmund White is the 5,305th most popular writer (down from 4,943rd in 2019), the 8,463rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,321st in 2019) and the 664th most popular American Writer.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edmund White ranks 5,305 out of 5,755. Before him are Kristina Lugn, Aelianus Tacticus, José Hierro, Federigo Tozzi, Jacques-Pierre Amette, and Domiziana Giordano. After him are Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Vítězslav Hálek, Jules Roy, Eric Van Lustbader, and Roger Vercel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Edmund White ranks 450. Before him are Mary Ellen Mark, K. J. Yesudas, James Gammon, Luis Ubiña, Alberto Fouilloux, and Mariette Hartley. After him are Jaak Lipso, Willi Holdorf, Arthur Alexander, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Wolfgang Paul, and Dorrit Willumsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund White ranks 8,463 out of 18,182. Before him are Mariette Hartley (1940), Jeremiah S. Black (1810), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Ezra Miller (1992), Kerr Smith (1972), and Richard Armitage (1945). After him are David Amram (1930), Omar Epps (1973), Lee Calhoun (1933), Harry Babcock (1890), Arto Lindsay (1953), and Erykah Badu (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edmund White ranks 664. Before him are Lin Carter (1930), Kevin Kelly (1952), Damon Runyon (1880), Iris Chang (1968), David Benioff (1970), and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884). After him are Eric Van Lustbader (1946), Donald Richie (1924), Michael Swanwick (1950), Brad Falchuk (1971), Judy Blume (1938), and Peter Matthiessen (1927).

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