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WRITER

Gardner Dozois

1947 - 2018

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Gardner Raymond Dozois ( doh-ZWAH; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gardner Dozois has received more than 214,926 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gardner Dozois is the 5,093rd most popular writer (down from 4,991st in 2019), the 7,698th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,587th in 2019) and the 617th most popular American Writer.

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  • 22

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  • 4.22

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  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gardner Dozois ranks 5,093 out of 5,755Before him are Šatrijos Ragana, Princess Delphine of Belgium, Richard Llewellyn, Ferenc Móra, Franz Xaver Kroetz, and Trudi Canavan. After him are Marc Okrand, Grace Paley, Jan Parandowski, Luigi Galleani, Tua Forsström, and Richard K. Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gardner Dozois ranks 517Before him are Arlo Guthrie, Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Ignazio La Russa, Louise Arbour, Sylvestre Ilunga, and Margaret Geller. After him are Tua Forsström, Firmine Richard, Þorsteinn Pálsson, Enrique Chazarreta, Dominique Baudis, and Wolfgang Schwarz. Among people deceased in 2018, Gardner Dozois ranks 343Before him are Daniel Robin, Jo Jo White, Viktor Kanevskyi, Kate Wilhelm, Beatriz Segall, and Patricia Morison. After him are Győző Forintos, Győző Kulcsár, José Varacka, Carole Shelley, Valentina Rastvorova, and Joseph Polchinski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gardner Dozois ranks 7,698 out of 18,182Before him are Sophia Bush (1982), Cliff Edwards (1895), Jean Parker (1915), Danny Lloyd (1972), Marc Webb (1974), and Margaret Geller (1947). After him are Dan Fogler (1976), Marc Okrand (1948), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Grace Paley (1922), James P. Johnson (1894), and Daphne Zuniga (1962).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gardner Dozois ranks 617Before him are Bart D. Ehrman (1955), Kate Wilhelm (1928), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Katherine Neville (1945), Nella Larsen (1891), and Nancy Kress (1948). After him are Marc Okrand (1948), Grace Paley (1922), Louise Erdrich (1954), Tony Hillerman (1925), David Belasco (1853), and Helen Prejean (1939).