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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 266,163 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Bowles is the 4,495th most popular writer, the 6,311th most popular biography from United States and the 510th most popular American Writer.

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  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jane Bowles ranks 4,495 out of 5,755Before her are Mahmud Taymur, Riichi Yokomitsu, Lucius Shepard, Erlend Loe, Karolina Světlá, and John Farey Sr.. After her are Lydia Davis, Olavo Bilac, Paula Hawkins, Aleksey Koltsov, Grace Aguilar, and Donald Rayfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Jane Bowles ranks 214Before her are José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Torsten Lindberg, Babiker Awadalla, Vernon A. Walters, Robert Fano, and Helen Suzman. After her are Joseph Wresinski, Victor Marijnen, José Luis Sampedro, Bagrat Shinkuba, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and Madeleine Robinson. Among people deceased in 1973, Jane Bowles ranks 182Before her are İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Erich Srbek, Charles Daniels, Armas Toivonen, Otilio Ulate Blanco, and Mahmud Taymur. After her are M. Ageyev, Alfred Schmitt, Emil Voigt, Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Armstrong, and Joe E. Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Bowles ranks 6,311 out of 18,182Before her are L. Q. Jones (1927), Michael Bowen (1957), Gil Scott-Heron (1949), John Wooden (1910), Jo Jones (1911), and Mike Todd (1909). After her are Leslie West (1945), Lydia Davis (1947), Chris Wedge (1957), John C. Slater (1900), Albert Tyler (1872), and Carl Switzer (1927).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jane Bowles ranks 510Before her are Marilyn French (1929), James Dashner (1972), James Agee (1909), Leo Buscaglia (1924), William Cullen Bryant (1794), and Lucius Shepard (1943). After her are Lydia Davis (1947), Helen Thomas (1920), Alan Dean Foster (1946), Francis Davis Millet (1848), Sylvia Browne (1936), and Damon Knight (1922).