1949 - Today
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.
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Among writers, Jane Smiley ranks 5,958 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1562 - 1619
HPI: 38.36
Rank: 5,952
1930 - 2012
HPI: 38.36
Rank: 5,953
1914 - 1981
HPI: 38.36
Rank: 5,954
1964 - Present
HPI: 38.33
Rank: 5,955
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.31
Rank: 5,956
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.29
Rank: 5,957
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 5,958
1983 - Present
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 5,959
1864 - 1918
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 5,960
1927 - Present
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 5,961
1879 - 1931
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 5,962
1967 - 2017
HPI: 38.19
Rank: 5,963
1928 - Present
HPI: 38.19
Rank: 5,964
Among people born in 1949, Jane Smiley ranks 641. Before 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.
1949 - 2014
HPI: 38.47
Rank: 635
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.46
Rank: 636
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.46
Rank: 637
1949 - 2009
HPI: 38.38
Rank: 638
1949 - 2020
HPI: 38.37
Rank: 639
1949 - 2010
HPI: 38.33
Rank: 640
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 641
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 642
1949 - 2013
HPI: 38.19
Rank: 643
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.18
Rank: 644
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.14
Rank: 645
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.12
Rank: 646
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.11
Rank: 647
Among people born in United States, Jane Smiley ranks 11,875 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1950 - Present
HPI: 38.29
Rank: 11,869
1982 - Present
HPI: 38.29
Rank: 11,870
1902 - 1985
HPI: 38.28
Rank: 11,871
1874 - 1961
HPI: 38.28
Rank: 11,872
1982 - Present
HPI: 38.28
Rank: 11,873
1919 - 2011
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 11,874
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 11,875
1899 - 1966
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 11,876
1928 - 2021
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 11,877
1978 - Present
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 11,878
1965 - Present
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 11,879
1924 - 2011
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 11,880
1948 - 2019
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 11,881
Among writers born in United States, Jane Smiley ranks 887. Before 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).
1901 - 1963
HPI: 38.49
Rank: 881
1905 - 2006
HPI: 38.48
Rank: 882
1949 - 2014
HPI: 38.47
Rank: 883
1955 - Present
HPI: 38.47
Rank: 884
1902 - 1971
HPI: 38.43
Rank: 885
1957 - Present
HPI: 38.38
Rank: 886
1949 - Present
HPI: 38.27
Rank: 887
1879 - 1931
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 888
1928 - Present
HPI: 38.19
Rank: 889
1972 - Present
HPI: 38.17
Rank: 890
1934 - 2024
HPI: 38.16
Rank: 891
1986 - Present
HPI: 38.14
Rank: 892
1989 - Present
HPI: 38.12
Rank: 893