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Irving Wallace

1916 - 1990

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Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irving Wallace has received more than 294,674 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Irving Wallace is the 4,447th most popular writer (down from 3,797th in 2019), the 6,202nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,128th in 2019) and the 503rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Irving Wallace ranks 4,447 out of 5,755Before him are Dulce María Loynaz, Roberto Saviano, Zainab Biisheva, Zhu Ziqing, Johann Jakob Breitinger, and Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. After him are Keri Hulme, Christopher Priest, Hilde Domin, Marilyn French, René Depestre, and Yann Martel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Irving Wallace ranks 196Before him are Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Lee Cronbach, Yasuji Miyazaki, Tatevik Sazandaryan, Arpenik Nalbandyan, and Pierre Emmanuel. After him are Johnny Claes, Arnoldo Foà, Nelly Landry, Neagu Djuvara, Bruno Chizzo, and Roy Ward Baker. Among people deceased in 1990, Irving Wallace ranks 189Before him are Nadia Gamal, Jack Gilford, Roman Vishniac, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Germán Suárez Flamerich, and Larry O'Brien. After him are Walter Sedlmayr, Katalin Karády, An Wang, Giorgio Scarlatti, Juliet Berto, and Adri van Male.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irving Wallace ranks 6,202 out of 18,182Before him are John Ashcroft (1942), Michael Andretti (1962), Vanessa Marcil (1968), Steve Porcaro (1957), David M. Brown (1956), and Chad Michael Murray (1981). After him are Edward Hicks (1780), James Franciscus (1934), Marilyn French (1929), Estelle Taylor (1894), Lindy Remigino (1931), and Alice Hamilton (1869).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Irving Wallace ranks 503Before him are Amiri Baraka (1934), Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902), Larry Collins (1929), Horatio Alger (1832), Robert B. Parker (1932), and Louis Bromfield (1896). After him are Marilyn French (1929), James Dashner (1972), James Agee (1909), Leo Buscaglia (1924), William Cullen Bryant (1794), and Lucius Shepard (1943).