WRITER

Ellen Glasgow

1873 - 1945

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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Glasgow has received more than 189,801 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ellen Glasgow is the 6,467th most popular writer (down from 5,831st in 2019), the 12,114th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,189th in 2019) and the 888th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Wheel of Life
1906
The battle-ground
Accessible book, Fiction, History
1902
Barren ground
Virginia in fiction, Fiction, Country life
1925
The deliverance
Fiction, Tobacco farmers, Classic Literature
1904
The Voice of the People
1972
The voice of the people
1900

Page views of Ellen Glasgows by language

Over the past year Ellen Glasgow has had the most page views in the with 18,410 views, followed by Russian (1,250), and Arabic (857). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (96.93%), Basque (88.12%), and (83.78%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ellen Glasgow ranks 6,467 out of 7,302. Before her are Amy Sherman-Palladino, Oliver Friggieri, Alberto Angela, Hanan al-Shaykh, David Seidler, and Carmen Posadas. After her are Peter Pišťanek, John Suckling, Lionel Shriver, Peter Stamm, Stephen Chbosky, and Forrest J Ackerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Ellen Glasgow ranks 201. Before her are Charles Avery, Leonid Leonidov, Dmitry Ushakov, Dorothy Richardson, Louisa Garrett Anderson, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. After her are Gauhar Jaan, Sara Josephine Baker, August Rodenberg, Leo Amery, John W. Davis, and Frederick Merriman. Among people deceased in 1945, Ellen Glasgow ranks 353. Before her are Frank Chapman, N. C. Wyeth, Sigurður Eggerz, Wilhelm Wirtinger, Robert Benchley, and Nikolai Khmelyov. After her are Sara Josephine Baker, Eoin MacNeill, Albert Arnheiter, Frank Craven, and Alfred E. Goodey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Glasgow ranks 12,114 out of 20,380. Before her are Kapiʻolani (1834), Lynn Whitfield (1953), Carol Yager (1960), Tom Daschle (1947), Griffin Bell (1918), and Elmer McCollum (1879). After her are Black Francis (1965), Alyson Reed (1958), William Wirt (1772), Lisa Ann Walter (1963), Daniel Harvey Hill (1821), and Sarah Drew (1980).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ellen Glasgow ranks 888. Before her are Judith Merril (1923), Ted Tally (1952), Thomas Beatie (1974), Robert Cormier (1925), Brené Brown (1965), and Amy Sherman-Palladino (1966). After her are Lionel Shriver (1957), Stephen Chbosky (1970), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872), Beverly Cleary (1916), and Marc Connelly (1890).

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