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Fran Lebowitz

1950 - Today

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Frances Ann Lebowitz (; born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls. Lebowitz gained fame for her books Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), which were combined into The Fran Lebowitz Reader in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fran Lebowitz has received more than 6,572,736 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fran Lebowitz is the 5,230th most popular writer (down from 4,204th in 2019), the 7,564th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,747th in 2019) and the 589th most popular American Writer.

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  • 19

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  • 2.04

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  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fran Lebowitz ranks 5,230 out of 7,302Before her are Ralph Giordano, Jacob van Maerlant, Georgy Ivanov, Ingrid Noll, Günter de Bruyn, and Ajdar Ismailov. After her are Daša Drndić, Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Henriette Roland Holst, Ælfric of Eynsham, and George Călinescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Fran Lebowitz ranks 420Before her are Awn Al-Khasawneh, Viktor Rashchupkin, Kessai Note, Shahram Nazeri, Ilinka Mitreva, and Zvonimir Serdarušić. After her are Alec Jeffreys, Arianna Huffington, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Savio Hon, Hugo Hovenkamp, and Lee Tamahori.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fran Lebowitz ranks 7,564 out of 20,380Before her are George Bruns (1914), Cornelius Johnson (1913), Rhyno (1975), Carol Kaye (1935), Ben Stein (1944), and Tommy Johnson (1896). After her are Greg Louganis (1960), Edmund Szoka (1927), Jello Biafra (1958), Bill Miller (1912), Robert Trivers (1943), and Margaret Dumont (1882).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Fran Lebowitz ranks 589Before her are Philip Agee (1935), Rita Mae Brown (1944), Lester del Rey (1915), Louis L'Amour (1908), Theodora Kroeber (1897), and William F. Buckley Jr. (1925). After her are Leo Buscaglia (1924), Katherine Neville (1945), Thomas Ligotti (1953), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Candace Bushnell (1958), and Sara Paretsky (1947).