WRITER

Jennifer Egan

1962 - Today

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Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jennifer Egan has received more than 794,601 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jennifer Egan is the 6,402nd most popular writer (down from 6,059th in 2019), the 11,815th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,642nd in 2019) and the 865th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jennifer Egan ranks 6,402 out of 7,302. Before her are Barry Unsworth, Mary Berry, Joe Paterno, Asma Barlas, Michelle Paver, and Leslie Feinberg. After her are James Patrick Kelly, Phyllis A. Whitney, Janet Evanovich, Tron Øgrim, Thomas Percy, and Joe Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Jennifer Egan ranks 528. Before her are Rob Morrow, Dagmar Neubauer, Volodymyr Lyutyi, Zenon Jaskuła, Mike Massimino, and Erik Thorstvedt. After her are Stockton Rush, Jeffrey Nordling, Zsolt Semjén, Tomas Johansson, Jáchym Topol, and Jean-François Bernard.

Others Born in 1962

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Egan ranks 11,815 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott McCloud (1960), Roy Brown (1925), Jennifer Syme (1972), Leslie Feinberg (1949), Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989). After her are Gene Siskel (1946), Tip O'Neill (1912), Stockton Rush (1962), Angela Kinsey (1971), Bobby Lashley (1976), and Lisa Lopes (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jennifer Egan ranks 865. Before her are Anderson Cooper (1967), George S. Kaufman (1889), Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), Linda Woolverton (1952), Joe Paterno (1926), and Leslie Feinberg (1949). After her are James Patrick Kelly (1951), Janet Evanovich (1943), Joe Hill (1972), James Branch Cabell (1879), Michael McClure (1932), and Andrew Sarris (1928).

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