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George Will

1941 - Today

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George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator. He writes columns for The Washington Post on a regular basis, and provides commentary for NewsNation. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Will has received more than 2,233,304 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Will is the 7,026th most popular writer (down from 6,264th in 2019), the 15,880th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,178th in 2019) and the 1,114th most popular American Writer.

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  • 16

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  • 1.20

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  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Dark Descent
Horror tales, American Horror tales, English Horror tales
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.
A Subtreasury of American Humor
American wit and humor, anthologies
humor
Men at work
Baseball, History, Large type books
Open Range
Large type books
Buster
Dogs, Great britain, royal air force, Iraq, social conditions
Machines That Think
Science fiction, American, American Science fiction, Computers
Moxon's Master - short story by Ambrose Bierce The Lost Machine - novelette by John Wyndham Rex - short story by Harl Vincent Robbie - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940) Farewell to the Master - novelette by Harry Bates Robot's Return - short story by Robert Moore Williams (variant of Robots Return) Though Dreamers Die - novelette by Lester del Rey Fulfillment - novelette by A. E. van Vogt Runaround - novelette by Isaac Asimov I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - short story by Harlan Ellison (some editions) The Evitable Conflict - novelette by Isaac Asimov A Logic Named Joe - short story by Murray Leinster Sam Hall - novelette by Poul Anderson I Made You - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. [as by Walter M. Miller] Triggerman - short story by J. F. Bone War with the Robots - short story by Harry Harrison Evidence - novelette by Isaac Asimov 2066: Election Day - short story by Michael Shaara If There Were No Benny Cemoli - novelette by Philip K. Dick The Monkey Wrench - short story by Gordon R. Dickson Dial F for Frankenstein - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Dial "F" for Frankenstein 1965) The Macauley Circuit - short story by Robert Silverberg Judas - short story by John Brunner Answer - short story by Fredric Brown The Electric Ant - short story by Philip K. Dick The Bicentennial Man - novelette by Isaac Asimov Long Shot - short story by Vernor Vinge Alien Stones - novelette by Gene Wolfe Starcrossed - short story by George Zebrowski

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Will ranks 7,026 out of 7,302Before him are Ruta Sepetys, Jan Böhmermann, Radka Denemarková, Becca Fitzpatrick, Candace Owens, and Yvonne Vera. After him are Maria Stepanova, Garth Nix, Geoff Johns, Eka Kurniawan, Edwidge Danticat, and Evgeny Morozov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, George Will ranks 646Before him are Ted Strickland, Menzies Campbell, Ronald Keeble, Brian Holland, Bob Wilson, and Darshan Ranganathan. After him are Dorothy Hyman, Anita Lonsbrough, Danny Davis, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Phillip Wilson, and Pierre Agostini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Will ranks 15,880 out of 20,380Before him are Becca Fitzpatrick (1979), Metro Boomin (1993), Dixy Lee Ray (1914), Candace Owens (1989), Karl Glusman (1988), and Marcus Chong (1967). After him are Liana Liberato (1995), Corey Hawkins (1988), Margo Harshman (1986), Mookie Betts (1992), Vin Baker (1971), and Jerry M. Linenger (1955).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, George Will ranks 1,114Before him are P. J. O'Rourke (1947), Paul Beatty (1962), Jon Lee Anderson (1957), Ruta Sepetys (1967), Becca Fitzpatrick (1979), and Candace Owens (1989). After him are Geoff Johns (1973), Walt Dohrn (1970), Lucille Clifton (1936), Justin Knapp (1982), Tahereh Mafi (1988), and Rita Dove (1952).