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Fred Saberhagen

1930 - 2007

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Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930 – June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and novels. Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the famous Dracula is the main protagonist, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East series and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels. Saberhagen died of cancer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Saberhagen is the 5,800th most popular writer (down from 5,414th in 2024), the 9,595th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,006th in 2019) and the 702nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Fred Saberhagen ranks 5,800 out of 7,302. Before him are Julia Navarro, Elke Erb, Leigh Bardugo, Joe Sacco, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Roger Vercel. After him are Henry Home, Lord Kames, Beryl Markham, Gerrit Achterberg, Artur Adson, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, and André Chamson.

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Among people born in 1930, Fred Saberhagen ranks 521. Before him are Oscar Rossi, Hryhorii Chapkis, Heather Harper, Jack Angel, Louis Meznarie, and Alan Oppenheimer. After him are Andy White, György Mitró, Vytautas Žalakevičius, Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Kenny Wheeler, and Edward Givens. Among people deceased in 2007, Fred Saberhagen ranks 348. Before him are R. B. Kitaj, Tammy Faye Messner, Madeleine L'Engle, Josep Pintat Solans, Anne McLaren, and David Halberstam. After him are Muhammad Osman Said, Fenny Heemskerk, José Antonio Roca, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Carey Bell, and Claude Netter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Saberhagen ranks 9,597 out of 20,380. Before him are Francis Tyler (1904), William T. Anderson (1839), John Trudell (1946), Leigh Taylor-Young (1945), Troy Baker (1976), and Garth Brooks (1962). After him are Jay Park (1987), Walter Reed (1851), Charles Sumner (1811), Heather Donahue (1974), Peter Schickele (1935), and Frederick Muhlenberg (1750).

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Among writers born in United States, Fred Saberhagen ranks 702. Before him are Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Jacob Abbott (1803), William Blum (1933), James Dashner (1972), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), and Tim Powers (1952). After him are Bess Meredyth (1890), Edward Abbey (1927), R. A. Lafferty (1914), John Berryman (1914), Brad Falchuk (1971), and Earl Derr Biggers (1884).

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