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Elizabeth Strout

1956 - Today

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Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her nine novels.Strout's first novel, Amy and Isabelle (1998), met with widespread critical acclaim, became a national bestseller, and was adapted into a movie starring Elisabeth Shue. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Strout has received more than 987,619 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Elizabeth Strout is the 4,319th most popular writer (down from 3,893rd in 2019), the 5,969th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,291st in 2019) and the 484th most popular American Writer.

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  • 990k

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  • 47.64

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Strout ranks 4,319 out of 5,755Before her are Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Emanuel Geibel, Mascha Kaléko, Ernst Stadler, Robin Sharma, and Louis Henri Boussenard. After her are María Teresa León, Aleksey Remizov, Roger Vitrac, Norman Vincent Peale, Johannes Linnankoski, and Stefano Benni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Elizabeth Strout ranks 231Before her are Martin Jol, Pierre Lévy, Masafumi Yokoyama, Laura Zapata, Corina Casanova, and Eduardo Rodríguez. After her are Pedro Santana Lopes, Jeremy Wade, Edgar Lungu, Dominique Blanc, Kevin Dunn, and Matthew Garber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Strout ranks 5,969 out of 18,182Before her are Alan Freed (1921), Alex Katz (1927), Koko Taylor (1928), Robert Blust (1940), Phil McGraw (1950), and Steve Miller (1943). After her are Richard Benjamin (1938), Barry Newman (1938), Vince Carter (1977), Jonathan Davis (1971), Robert Pine (1941), and Dylan O'Brien (1991).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Elizabeth Strout ranks 484Before her are James Lee Burke (1936), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), John Norman (1931), Sidney Howard (1891), James Blish (1921), and Greg Bear (1951). After her are Norman Vincent Peale (1898), R. J. Palacio (1963), Chaim Potok (1929), Jonathan Carroll (1949), Carrie Nation (1846), and Edmund Wilson (1895).

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