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Howard Pyle

1853 - 1911

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Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator, painter, and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Pyle has received more than 623,087 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Howard Pyle is the 3,017th most popular writer (up from 3,206th in 2019), the 3,941st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,193rd in 2019) and the 351st most popular American Writer.

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  • 620k

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  • 51.58

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Howard Pyle ranks 3,017 out of 5,755Before him are Robert McKee, Pascal Quignard, Adam Michnik, Judith Gautier, Sohrab Sepehri, and Juan Pablo Bonet. After him are María Kodama, James Rollins, Fanny Crosby, Victor Segalen, Rahman Baba, and Josef Jungmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Howard Pyle ranks 56Before him are Nikolai Kibalchich, Antonio Maura, Elihu Thomson, Teresa Carreño, John Wesley Hardin, and Hans von Koessler. After him are Laurits Tuxen, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Lillie Langtry, Gabriel Hanotaux, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, and Karl von Einem. Among people deceased in 1911, Howard Pyle ranks 46Before him are Maurice Rouvier, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Kōtoku Shūsui, Joan Maragall, Fritz von Uhde, and Alexandros Papadiamantis. After him are Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Konrad Duden, Ivan Grohar, Nikolay Beketov, Thomas Blake Glover, and Gustaf Fröding.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Pyle ranks 3,941 out of 18,182Before him are Jimmy Smits (1955), James Rosenquist (1933), Jim Croce (1943), Richard Roundtree (1942), Whitfield Diffie (1944), and Toby Keith (1961). After him are Armand Hammer (1898), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), James Rollins (1961), Nancy Kelly (1921), Alfred Worden (1932), and Fanny Crosby (1820).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Howard Pyle ranks 351Before him are Adrienne Rich (1929), Cotton Mather (1663), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), Douglas Preston (1956), Betty Mahmoody (1945), and Robert McKee (1941). After him are James Rollins (1961), Fanny Crosby (1820), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Glen Cook (1944), and Robert Bly (1926).