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Frank Norris

1870 - 1902

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Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Norris has received more than 405,447 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Norris is the 5,119th most popular writer (down from 4,603rd in 2019), the 7,284th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,595th in 2019) and the 573rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frank Norris ranks 5,119 out of 7,302. Before him are Jack Finney, Takeshi Shudo, Anton Buttigieg, Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Stanislav Stratiev, and Jonathan Stroud. After him are Ama Ata Aidoo, Juan de Mena, Inger Hagerup, Urs Widmer, Joel Chandler Harris, and Abbas Sahhat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Frank Norris ranks 131. Before him are John Isaac Briquet, Julián Besteiro, R. B. Bennett, Ivan Perestiani, Bautista Saavedra, and Nino Martoglio. After him are Victor Borisov-Musatov, John Marin, Charles Bennett, Jüri Jaakson, Teodor Shteingel, and Henri Bouckaert. Among people deceased in 1902, Frank Norris ranks 73. Before him are Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Richard Leach Maddox, Johannes Wislicenus, Emil Holub, and Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau. After him are Walter Reed, Almon Brown Strowger, Franz Sigel, Lőrinc Schlauch, Juan Bautista Egusquiza, and Hans von Pechmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Norris ranks 7,284 out of 20,380. Before him are James Foley (1953), Tim Daly (1956), James Hall (1811), Maude Fealy (1883), Bill Maher (1956), and James Algar (1912). After him are Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971), Pauline Oliveros (1932), Larry Graham (1946), Malcolm Browne (1931), Michael Stonebraker (1943), and Joel Chandler Harris (1848).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Frank Norris ranks 573. Before him are Stephen Hunter (1946), Elaine May (1932), David Belasco (1853), John O'Hara (1905), Alan Dean Foster (1946), and Jack Finney (1911). After him are Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Warren Farrell (1943), Patrick Rothfuss (1973), Louella Parsons (1881), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), and Eve Ensler (1953).

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