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Grace Paley

1922 - 2007

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Grace Paley, née Goodside (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist. Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Collected Stories in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grace Paley has received more than 332,166 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Grace Paley is the 5,095th most popular writer (down from 5,054th in 2019), the 7,702nd most popular biography from United States (up from 9,068th in 2019) and the 619th most popular American Writer.

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  • 330k

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  • 44.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Grace Paley ranks 5,095 out of 5,755. Before her are Richard Llewellyn, Ferenc Móra, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Trudi Canavan, Gardner Dozois, and Marc Okrand. After her are Jan Parandowski, Luigi Galleani, Tua Forsström, Richard K. Morgan, Louise Erdrich, and Tony Hillerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Grace Paley ranks 320. Before her are Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo, René Bader, Mochtar Lubis, Osvaldo Fattori, Pauline Baynes, and Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. After her are Gustaf Jansson, Jacques Lataste, Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, Charles Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Jack Kruschen. Among people deceased in 2007, Grace Paley ranks 284. Before her are Ulrich Plenzdorf, Tetsuo Okamoto, Freddie Francis, Robert Goulet, R. B. Kitaj, and Adam Kozłowiecki. After her are Pedro Cubilla, Pief Panofsky, Bohdan Paczyński, Jerry Falwell, Heinz Schiller, and Ray Evans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grace Paley ranks 7,702 out of 18,182. Before her are Marc Webb (1974), Margaret Geller (1947), Gardner Dozois (1947), Dan Fogler (1976), Marc Okrand (1948), and Ralph Abernathy (1926). After her are James P. Johnson (1894), Daphne Zuniga (1962), Wiz Khalifa (1987), Paul Dano (1984), Tom Arnold (1959), and Melissa Benoist (1988).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Grace Paley ranks 619. Before her are Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Katherine Neville (1945), Nella Larsen (1891), Nancy Kress (1948), Gardner Dozois (1947), and Marc Okrand (1948). After her are Louise Erdrich (1954), Tony Hillerman (1925), David Belasco (1853), Helen Prejean (1939), Holly Black (1971), and Frank O'Hara (1926).

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