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Janet Asimov

1926 - 2019

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Janet Opal Asimov (née Jeppson; August 6, 1926 – February 25, 2019), usually writing as J. O. Jeppson, was an American science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. She started writing children's science fiction in the 1970s. She was married to Isaac Asimov from 1973 until his death in 1992, and they collaborated on a number of science fiction books aimed at young readers, including the Norby series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janet Asimov has received more than 342,944 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Janet Asimov is the 3,509th most popular writer (up from 4,307th in 2019), the 4,634th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,158th in 2019) and the 395th most popular American Writer.

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  • 340k

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  • 50.06

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Janet Asimov ranks 3,509 out of 5,755Before her are Hovhannes Shiraz, Butrus al-Bustani, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Antonio Palomino, Daniel Boulanger, and Rutka Laskier. After her are John Winthrop, Jerzy Giedroyc, Musine Kokalari, Ahmed Rami, Reinhard Bonnke, and Roger Vailland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Janet Asimov ranks 226Before her are Carl Adam Petri, William Porter, Christine Jorgensen, Ibrahim Nasir, Allan Sandage, and Otto Graf Lambsdorff. After her are Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Miguel Obando y Bravo, Agostino Cacciavillan, Fred Gwynne, Driss Chraïbi, and Jon Vickers. Among people deceased in 2019, Janet Asimov ranks 222Before her are Achille Silvestrini, Roland Matthes, Vladimir Etush, Michael Gielen, Fahrudin Jusufi, and Herman Wouk. After her are Reinhard Bonnke, Jan Olszewski, Claude Goretta, Ram Dass, José Nápoles, and Gene Wolfe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Janet Asimov ranks 4,634 out of 18,182Before her are Harriet Lane (1830), Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879), Eric Johnson (1954), Clarence Zener (1905), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), and Emily Deschanel (1976). After her are William R. Pogue (1930), James R. Schlesinger (1929), Lester Germer (1896), John Kitzmiller (1913), Pete Rose (1941), and Donald Byrd (1932).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Janet Asimov ranks 395Before her are Anne Tyler (1941), Marianne Moore (1887), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Varian Fry (1907), Carl Bernstein (1944), and Herman Wouk (1915). After her are Henrietta Szold (1860), Donna Tartt (1963), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Ralph Ellison (1914), Jonathan Littell (1967), and Seymour Hersh (1937).