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Jane Smiley

1949 - Today

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Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Smiley has received more than 396,112 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jane Smiley is the 5,958th most popular writer (down from 5,345th in 2019), the 11,875th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,857th in 2019) and the 887th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jane Smiley ranks 5,958 out of 5,755Before her are Samuel Daniel, Barry Unsworth, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Thomas Brussig, Alexandre del Valle, and Georgi Gospodinov. After her are Pippa Middleton, Jakob Jakobsen, Nayantara Sahgal, Vachel Lindsay, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, and William Kennedy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jane Smiley ranks 641Before her are Leslie Feinberg, Robert D. Cabana, Natalya Sokolova, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Gregory Areshian, and Zbigniew Wassermann. After her are Jürgen Colombo, Nadezhda Ilyina, John Leckie, Raymond Martin, Zygmunt Kalinowski, and Claudia Kolb.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Smiley ranks 11,875 out of 18,182Before her are Gary Larson (1950), Kate Siegel (1982), Stepin Fetchit (1902), George Irving (1874), Jodie Sweetin (1982), and Ellen Stewart (1919). After her are Gertrude Berg (1899), Jackie Mason (1928), Swizz Beatz (1978), Butch Hartman (1965), Charlie Callas (1924), and Georgia Engel (1948).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jane Smiley ranks 887Before her are Oliver La Farge (1901), Stanley Kunitz (1905), Leslie Feinberg (1949), Joel Surnow (1955), Ogden Nash (1902), and Lionel Shriver (1957). After her are Vachel Lindsay (1879), William Kennedy (1928), N. K. Jemisin (1972), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Deborah Feldman (1986), and Anna Todd (1989).