WRITER

Hubert Selby Jr.

1928 - 2004

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Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hubert Selby Jr. has received more than 552,736 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Hubert Selby Jr. is the 3,219th most popular writer (down from 2,788th in 2019), the 4,099th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,656th in 2019) and the 347th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Last exit to Brooklyn
City and town life, Fiction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder
1964
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Fiction
1964
Requiem for a dream
Drug abuse, Drug addicts, Fiction
This book is about four individuals who pursued the American Dream. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital.
1978
The demon
Fiction in English
1976
The Willow Tree
Fiction, Inner cities, Hispanic American teenagers
1998
Song of the silent snow
1986

Page views of Hubert Selby Jr.s by language

Over the past year Hubert Selby Jr. has had the most page views in the with 83,796 views, followed by Russian (11,223), and French (10,987). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (124.24%), Ukrainian (84.01%), and Esperanto (79.15%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hubert Selby Jr. ranks 3,219 out of 7,302. Before him are Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Ephraim Chambers, André Aciman, Jerzy Giedroyc, Victoria Benedictsson, and Pavlo Tychyna. After him are Roberto Calasso, Hilary Mantel, Kamalaśīla, Ford Madox Ford, Etgar Keret, and Luo Yixiu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Hubert Selby Jr. ranks 263. Before him are Azlan Shah of Perak, Charles Gray, William Klein, Pilar Lorengar, Maynard Ferguson, and Ann Morgan Guilbert. After him are Warren Oates, Paul Johnson, Raoul Servais, Amata Kabua, Levko Lukianenko, and Joan Martí i Alanis. Among people deceased in 2004, Hubert Selby Jr. ranks 138. Before him are Orvar Bergmark, James Quinn, Ota Šik, Tiziano Terzani, José Giovanni, and Cem Karaca. After him are Juan Zambudio Velasco, Piero Piccioni, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Kalevi Sorsa, Carmen Laforet, and Christer Pettersson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hubert Selby Jr. ranks 4,099 out of 20,380. Before him are David Huddleston (1930), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Ginger Lynn (1962), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Gus Hall (1910), and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856). After him are Lynne Cheney (1941), Lester Germer (1896), David Zucker (1947), Clark Gregg (1962), Halton Arp (1927), and Chita Rivera (1933).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Hubert Selby Jr. ranks 347. Before him are Marianne Williamson (1952), Edward Gorey (1925), Henry Kuttner (1915), Anne Tyler (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), and Peter Benchley (1940). After him are Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), Gregory Benford (1941), Willa Cather (1873), Wallace Stevens (1879), and Douglas Preston (1956).

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