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Jane Bowles

1917 - 1973

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Jane Bowles (; born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Bowles has received more than 286,729 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jane Bowles is the 5,353rd most popular writer (down from 4,481st in 2019), the 7,848th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,298th in 2019) and the 611th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jane Bowles ranks 5,353 out of 7,302. Before her are Ferreira de Castro, Dan Pagis, Abdulla Aliş, Tom Peters, Birago Diop, and Vernon Lee. After her are Hans Christian Branner, John Gardner, Lars Ahlin, Charles Montagu Doughty, Wacław Potocki, and Mary Welsh Hemingway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Jane Bowles ranks 274. Before her are Noboru Terada, Nils Täpp, Carlo Cassola, Alice Pearce, June Foray, and Reidar Liaklev. After her are Gottfried Honegger, Arne Sucksdorff, Francis Parker Yockey, Barbro Kollberg, Gonzalo Rojas, and Tetsuo Hamuro. Among people deceased in 1973, Jane Bowles ranks 222. Before her are Cecil Kellaway, Romeo Bertini, Earl Browder, Grigore Moisil, Dudley Senanayake, and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz. After her are Oliver Macdonald, Roland Dorgelès, Mikhail Somov, Arthur Freed, Memphis Minnie, and Ivan Petrovsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Bowles ranks 7,848 out of 20,380. Before her are Dick Durbin (1944), Carl Blegen (1887), Sidney Verba (1932), Julius J. Epstein (1909), Jerry Lawler (1949), and Blanche Sweet (1896). After her are Charles A. Beard (1874), Paul Dano (1984), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Anya Taylor-Joy (1996), Donna Mills (1940), and Lee Cronbach (1916).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jane Bowles ranks 611. Before her are David Peoples (1940), Peter Gould (1950), David Brown (1916), Julie Garwood (1946), David S. Goyer (1965), and Tom Peters (1942). After her are John Gardner (1933), Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908), Roderick Thorp (1936), Ring Lardner (1885), Elizabeth Hawley (1923), and Kristin Hannah (1960).

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