WRITER

Ernest Hemingway

1899 - 1961

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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Hemingway has received more than 32,374,117 page views. His biography is available in 148 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2019). Ernest Hemingway is the 32nd most popular writer (down from 30th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from United States (down from 25th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Writer.

Ernest Hemingway is most famous for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

Memorability Metrics

  • 32M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 148

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A Farewell to Arms
1929
The Old Man and the Sea
1920
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940
To have and have not
1937
The Sun Also Rises
1926
Short stories
1930

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ernest Hemingway ranks 32 out of 7,302. Before him are Rumi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, and Horace. After him are Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, and H. P. Lovecraft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway ranks 2. Before him is Huang Xianfan. After him are Alfred Hitchcock, Jorge Luis Borges, Al Capone, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Hayek, Frederick IX of Denmark, Lavrentiy Beria, Yasunari Kawabata, Humphrey Bogart, and László Bíró. Among people deceased in 1961, Ernest Hemingway ranks 1. After him are Carl Jung, Erwin Schrödinger, Patrice Lumumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Gary Cooper, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jules Bordet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Mohammed V of Morocco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernest Hemingway ranks 35 out of 20,380. Before him are Neil Armstrong (1930), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Ronald Reagan (1911), Pocahontas (1595), and George Washington (1732). After him are Walt Disney (1901), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Aretha Franklin (1942), Al Pacino (1940), and Robert De Niro (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ernest Hemingway ranks 2. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809). After him are H. P. Lovecraft (1890), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Jack London (1876), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Dr. Seuss (1904), and William Faulkner (1897).

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