WRITER

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 1970s and 1980s New York art scene, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls. The New York Times has called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fran Lebowitz has received more than 6,072,318 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fran Lebowitz is the 5,229th most popular writer (down from 4,204th in 2019), the 7,563rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,747th in 2019) and the 589th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Social studies
American wit and humor, Manners and customs, Humor
1981
Metropolitan Life
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, Manners and customs
1978
By the Grace of Extinction
Fiction, psychological
2023
The Disco Files 1973-78
Disco music, Subculture, Music, american
2009
The Fran Lebowitz reader
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, New york (n.y.), social life and customs
1994
Forbidden Shadows
Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, action & adventure
2020

Page views of Fran Lebowitzs by language

Over the past year Fran Lebowitz has had the most page views in the with 553,106 views, followed by German (26,388), and Spanish (16,308). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (54.37%), Portuguese (24.96%), and Egyptian Arabic (24.10%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fran Lebowitz ranks 5,229 out of 7,302. Before 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 420. Before 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 7,563 out of 20,380. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Fran Lebowitz ranks 589. Before 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).

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