WRITER

Gloria Vanderbilt

1924 - 2019

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Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (February 20, 1924 – June 17, 2019) was an American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, each sought custody of her and control over her trust fund. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gloria Vanderbilt has received more than 14,410,151 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gloria Vanderbilt is the 3,779th most popular writer (down from 3,714th in 2019), the 4,842nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,960th in 2019) and the 402nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Once Upon a Time
Biography, Artists, Biographies
A riveting and astonishing memoir written by Gloria Vanderbilt herself. Gloria Vanderbilt tells her story, from the moment of her earliest memory through the custody trial to her seventeenth year.
1985
Black knight, white knight
Biography, Artists
1987
Obsession
Erotic Literature, Fiction, Erotic stories
The marriages of desire . . .From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man—and, ultimately, with each other.Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community. When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their tenth wedding anniversary celebration, the devastated Priscilla is left keeper of the flame of Talbot's genius. Going through her husband's archives, she comes unexpectedly upon a pile of neatly tied letters, and the shocking secret of her husband's intimate life—a discovery that shatters the foundation of her soul and spirit.Obsession explores the mysteries of the human heart and the nature of sexuality and obsession, provoking questions about whom we choose to love, and why. The reader is left to decide if the other woman represents another facet of Priscilla, or if Priscilla her-self has invented the other woman who completed the world her husband so recently inhabited?
2009
Once upon a time
Biography, Artists
1985
A mother's story
Biography, Suicide victims, Mothers
1996
It seemed important at the time
Biography, Women fashion designers, Celebrities
2004

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gloria Vanderbilt ranks 3,779 out of 7,302. Before her are Friederike Mayröcker, Said Akl, Lucrezia Marinella, Jacob of Serugh, Peter Andreas Heiberg, and Charles Simon Favart. After her are Alf Prøysen, Hovhannes Shiraz, Amado Nervo, Charles Grandison Finney, Iain Banks, and Lise Nørgaard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Gloria Vanderbilt ranks 247. Before her are György Lázár, Luděk Pachman, Azucena Villaflor, Jean-Michel Charlier, Erik Balling, and Friederike Mayröcker. After her are Jimmy Gardner, Qiao Shi, Janet Frame, Sonny Stitt, Marcel Domingo, and Rainer Barzel. Among people deceased in 2019, Gloria Vanderbilt ranks 242. Before her are Janet Asimov, Eva Mozes Kor, David Hedison, Anémone, Vojtěch Jasný, and Mark Zakharov. After her are Pedro Manfredini, Jacques Dupont, Jurica Jerković, Omero Antonutti, Sven Lindqvist, and Herman Wouk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gloria Vanderbilt ranks 4,842 out of 20,380. Before her are Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Oliver North (1943), Rafer Johnson (1935), Josephine Hull (1877), Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), and Dennis Dugan (1946). After her are Louise Arner Boyd (1887), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Theodore Maiman (1927), John G. Trump (1907), Johnny Nash (1940), and Levon Helm (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gloria Vanderbilt ranks 402. Before her are James A. Michener (1907), Og Mandino (1923), John Gray (1951), Hal Clement (1922), Marilyn French (1929), and Brandon Sanderson (1975). After her are Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Francis Scott Key (1779), Henry Adams (1838), David Brin (1950), James Russell Lowell (1819), and A. Merritt (1884).

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