1928 - 2016
Edward Franklin Albee III ( AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Albee has received more than 1,360,670 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Albee is the 1,360th most popular writer (up from 1,418th in 2019), the 1,717th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,711th in 2019) and the 165th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Edward Albee ranks 1,360 out of 5,755. Before him are Ibn Khallikan, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, James Oliver Curwood, Ubertino of Casale, Adam de la Halle, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte. After him are Norman Mailer, Diana Gabaldon, Callinus, Oribasius, Maryse Condé, and Sławomir Mrożek.
1211 - 1282
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 1,354
1543 - 1603
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 1,355
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 1,356
1259 - 1330
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 1,357
1245 - 1288
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 1,358
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 1,359
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 1,360
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,361
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,362
680 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,363
325 - 403
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,364
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 1,365
1930 - 2013
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 1,366
Among people born in 1928, Edward Albee ranks 100. Before him are Hans Modrow, Walter Mondale, Robert Sheckley, Sol LeWitt, Arman, and Christa Ludwig. After him are Joe Jackson, Seymour Papert, Bernard Buffet, Pierre Mauroy, Eunice Gayson, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Among people deceased in 2016, Edward Albee ranks 84. Before him are Edgar Mitchell, Chyna, Yasuo Takamori, Thomas Schelling, David Hamilton, and Corry Brokken. After him are Seymour Papert, Tony Burton, Glenn Frey, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Ashraf Pahlavi, and Lloyd Shapley.
1928 - Present
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 94
1928 - 2021
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 95
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 96
1928 - 2007
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 97
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 98
1928 - 2021
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 99
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 100
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 101
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 102
1928 - 1999
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 103
1928 - 2013
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 104
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 105
1928 - 2009
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 106
1930 - 2016
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 78
1969 - 2016
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 79
1934 - 2016
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 80
1921 - 2016
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 81
1933 - 2016
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 82
1932 - 2016
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 83
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 84
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 85
1937 - 2016
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 86
1948 - 2016
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 87
1926 - 2016
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 88
1919 - 2016
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 89
1923 - 2016
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 90
Among people born in United States, Edward Albee ranks 1,717 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Spence (1943), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Floyd Patterson (1935), Jim Rogers (1942), Edwin S. Porter (1870), and Barbara W. Tuchman (1912). After him are A. L. Kroeber (1876), Angela Bassett (1958), Joe Jackson (1928), Eva Mendes (1974), Norman Mailer (1923), and Stephen Jay Gould (1941).
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,711
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,712
1935 - 2006
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,713
1942 - Present
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 1,714
1870 - 1941
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 1,715
1912 - 1989
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 1,716
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 1,717
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 1,718
1958 - Present
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,719
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,720
1974 - Present
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,721
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,722
1941 - 2002
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,723
Among writers born in United States, Edward Albee ranks 165. Before him are Don DeLillo (1936), Robert Bloch (1917), Joyce Carol Oates (1938), William Styron (1925), Samuel R. Delany (1942), and James Oliver Curwood (1878). After him are Norman Mailer (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), James Patterson (1947), Thornton Wilder (1897), Martin Gardner (1914), and Ida Tarbell (1857).
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 159
1917 - 1994
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 160
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 161
1925 - 2006
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 162
1942 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 163
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 164
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 165
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 166
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 167
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 168
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 169
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 170
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 171