WRITER

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 616,086 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Pyle is the 3,538th most popular writer (down from 3,006th in 2019), the 4,539th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,930th in 2019) and the 379th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Men of Iron
Great britain, history, fiction, Knights and knighthood, fiction, Children's fiction
2018
Men of Iron
Juvenile fiction, History, Knights and knighthood
1891
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
2018
Otto of the Silver Hand
Middle Ages, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
A courageous boy in the Middle Ages brings an end to the feud between two powerful robber barons.
1888
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
Legends, Juvenile fiction, Robin Hood (Legendary character)
**The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire** is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Pyle compiled the traditional Robin Hood ballads as a series of episodes of a coherent narrative. For his characters' dialog, Pyle adapted the late Middle English of the ballads into a dialect suitable for children. The novel is notable for taking the subject of Robin Hood, which had been increasingly popular through the 19th century, in a new direction that influenced later writers, artists, and filmmakers through the next century. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood))
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Stolen Treasure
2018

Page views of Howard Pyles by language

Over the past year Howard Pyle has had the most page views in the with 70,913 views, followed by Spanish (6,416), and Russian (4,453). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (81.35%), Basque (80.00%), and Esperanto (52.04%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Howard Pyle ranks 3,538 out of 7,302. Before him are Molla Panah Vagif, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Françoise Giroud, Donald Barthelme, and Xiao Hong. After him are Edwin Arnold, Cotton Mather, Václav Hanka, Jien, Jovan Sterija Popović, and Anna Gavalda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Howard Pyle ranks 62. Before him are Paul Julius Möbius, Isidor Kaufmann, Adolf Furtwängler, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Karl von Einem, and Hans von Koessler. After him are John Wesley Hardin, Hermann Wissmann, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Jules Lemaître, Florentino Ameghino, and Jaroslav Vrchlický. Among people deceased in 1911, Howard Pyle ranks 55. Before him are Thomas Blake Glover, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Ellen Swallow Richards, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, and Felix Mottl. After him are Nikolay Beketov, Reinhold Begas, Carl Fredrik Hill, Edwin Austin Abbey, Florentino Ameghino, and Carrie Nation.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Pyle ranks 4,539 out of 20,380. Before him are John Tate (1925), Jubal Early (1816), Clyde Tolson (1900), Crawford Long (1815), Nathanael Greene (1742), and Donald Barthelme (1931). After him are Cotton Mather (1663), Holly Marie Combs (1973), Augustine Washington (1694), Broderick Crawford (1911), Rikky von Opel (1947), and Gertrude Käsebier (1852).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Howard Pyle ranks 379. Before him are Dennis Lehane (1965), Adrienne Rich (1929), Sara Teasdale (1884), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), and Donald Barthelme (1931). After him are Cotton Mather (1663), Gene Wolfe (1931), Joss Whedon (1964), Robert W. Chambers (1865), Emma Lazarus (1849), and James Tiptree Jr. (1915).

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