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 (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 232,646 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gardner Dozois is the 5,752nd most popular writer (down from 5,076th in 2019), the 8,863rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,683rd in 2019) and the 682nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gardner Dozois ranks 5,752 out of 7,302. Before him are Gerrit Achterberg, Dina Rubina, Mulk Raj Anand, Margaret Mahy, Thomas Brezina, and Gianni Celati. After him are Memnon of Heraclea, C. L. R. James, Julia Hartwig, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Wendela Hebbe, and August Alle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gardner Dozois ranks 644. Before him are Roky Erickson, Mercedes Sampietro, Wayne Allwine, Rustam Kazakov, Sten Stensen, and Ernie Lively. After him are John Powell, Leena Krohn, Mustapha Choukri, Ian Millar, Claudio Sala, and Giulio Tremonti. Among people deceased in 2018, Gardner Dozois ranks 412. Before him are William Blum, Milunka Lazarević, Daniel Robin, Joseph Polchinski, Aleksei Paramonov, and Mateja Matevski. After him are László Fábián, Diana Der Hovanessian, George Deukmejian, Piotr Szulkin, Alberto Fouilloux, and Richard DeVos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gardner Dozois ranks 8,863 out of 20,380. Before him are Adam Rodriguez (1975), Lillian Disney (1899), Norman Greenbaum (1942), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Frankie Muniz (1985), and Cedric the Entertainer (1964). After him are Jeremy Strong (1978), Loleatta Holloway (1946), Barbara Bates (1925), John Kander (1927), John Powell (1947), and Laura Secord (1775).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gardner Dozois ranks 682. Before him are Henry Ward Beecher (1813), Robert Christgau (1942), James E. Gunn (1923), Jack McDevitt (1935), Robert Bly (1926), and Ann Rule (1931). After him are Diana Der Hovanessian (1934), Daniel Pearl (1963), Steven Saylor (1956), Avram Davidson (1923), Edward Abbey (1927), and Iris Chang (1968).

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