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Erich Segal

1937 - 2010

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Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Segal has received more than 496,692 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Segal is the 2,055th most popular writer (down from 1,339th in 2019), the 2,698th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,578th in 2019) and the 243rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erich Segal ranks 2,055 out of 5,755. Before him are Taliesin, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Friedrich Rückert, William Moulton Marston, Pavel Kohout, and Miguel Delibes. After him are Camilo Castelo Branco, Frederick Marryat, Samad Vurgun, Frédéric Ozanam, Sigismund von Herberstein, and Tadeusz Borowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Erich Segal ranks 133. Before him are Jovan Divjak, Facundo Cabral, Ned Beatty, Lajos Portisch, Aslan Usoyan, and Olusegun Obasanjo. After him are Dyan Cannon, Ted Nelson, Archie Shepp, Anna Hazare, Sally Kellerman, and Chandrashekhara Kambara. Among people deceased in 2010, Erich Segal ranks 92. Before him are Charlie Wilson, Teddy Scholten, Maurice Wilkes, Martin Sandberger, Howard Zinn, and Miguel Delibes. After him are Vladislav Ardzinba, Dick Francis, Alexander Haig, Raimon Panikkar, Fess Parker, and Cécile Aubry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erich Segal ranks 2,698 out of 18,182. Before him are William Moulton Marston (1893), Paul Strand (1890), Robert Conrad (1935), John Stockton (1962), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), and Cheryl Ladd (1951). After him are Nolan Bushnell (1943), Ira Gershwin (1896), Stella Adler (1901), Michael DeBakey (1908), Dyan Cannon (1937), and Ted Nelson (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Erich Segal ranks 243. Before him are Joseph Heller (1923), August Derleth (1909), Annie Proulx (1935), John W. Campbell (1910), James M. Cain (1892), and William Moulton Marston (1893). After him are Djuna Barnes (1892), Maurice Sendak (1928), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Fritz Leiber (1910), Archibald Gracie IV (1858), and Harold Bloom (1930).

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