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Herman Wouk

1915 - 2019

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Herman Wouk ( WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author and centenarian who wrote historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herman Wouk has received more than 1,188,914 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Herman Wouk is the 3,492nd most popular writer (down from 2,531st in 2019), the 4,616th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,237th in 2019) and the 394th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Herman Wouk ranks 3,492 out of 5,755. Before him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Ammonius of Alexandria, Paul Johnson, Giuseppe Parini, Pelagonius, and Berdi Kerbabayev. After him are Luigi Capuana, Brendan Behan, Mariano Azuela, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Misuzu Kaneko, and Frédéric Beigbeder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Herman Wouk ranks 138. Before him are M. F. Husain, Nikos Beloyannis, Zulfiya, Wilhelm Gliese, Alykul Osmonov, and Vladimir Zeldin. After him are Hans Christian Blech, Garrett Hardin, Harry Morgan, Sergio Bertoni, Eugene Polley, and Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Among people deceased in 2019, Herman Wouk ranks 221. Before him are Lydia Wideman, Achille Silvestrini, Roland Matthes, Vladimir Etush, Michael Gielen, and Fahrudin Jusufi. After him are Janet Asimov, Reinhard Bonnke, Jan Olszewski, Claude Goretta, Ram Dass, and José Nápoles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herman Wouk ranks 4,616 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert H. Dicke (1916), Michael Kahn (1935), Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Richard Kiley (1922), Gary Hart (1936), and Richard Sears (1861). After him are Melinda Culea (1955), Joseph Grew (1880), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Alice Neel (1900), Perry King (1948), and Gregory Hines (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Herman Wouk ranks 394. Before him are Robert Ettinger (1918), Anne Tyler (1941), Marianne Moore (1887), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Varian Fry (1907), and Carl Bernstein (1944). After him are Janet Asimov (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), Donna Tartt (1963), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Ralph Ellison (1914), and Jonathan Littell (1967).

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