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Jim Butcher

1971 - Today

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Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971) is an American author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Butcher has received more than 1,593,492 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Butcher is the 6,801st most popular writer (down from 6,065th in 2019), the 14,070th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,687th in 2019) and the 1,024th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fool Moon
magic, werewolves, Harry Dresden (Fictitious character)
Dresden is a wizard that resides in Chicago. He is the only wizard in the yellow pages. He helps the Chicago Police solve mystery that goes bump in the night. But what happens when FBI gets involved? To add to the confusion, it seems there is more than wizard and magic in Chicago ... there are also werewolves!
2001
Death Masks
Fiction, Wizards, Dresden, Harry (Fictitious characters)
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen shroud of Turin.
2003
Grave Peril
Ghost stories, Harry Dresden (Fictitious character), Wizards
Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago's only professional wizard.But in all of Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble—and not just of the door-slamming, 'boo'- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.Someone—or something—is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.
2001
Dangerous Women
Fantasy, Fiction, English Fantasy fiction
This volume of warriors, bad girls and dragonriders includes stories by worldwide bestselling authors. This first volume includes an original 35,000 word novella revealing the origins of the civil war in Westeros (before the events in *A Game of Thromes*.)
2013
Many Bloody Returns
Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires
Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the annual commemoration of Dracula's birth. But this year, the Prince of Darkness actually shows up-and finds Sookie to be a tasty-looking present.New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files novels, heads to a role-playing party to give his vampire brother a birthday present in "It's My Birthday Too," only to discover there are some bloodthirsty party crashers who don't share their brotherly love.In "Twilight," Cassandra DuCharme, who appeared in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Dime Store Magic, knows she has to kill to live as a vampire another year-but finds herself disturbingly disinterested in the hunt.Plus ten more bloody good birthday stories that take the cake.
2007
Storm Front
Mystery, Fiction, Fantasy
The novels of the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. Storm Front is Jim Butcher's first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire.For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic. At first, the less-than-solvent Harry's eyes light up with dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage. Now, that black mage knows Harry's name. And things are about to get very...interesting.
1997

Page views of Jim Butchers by language

Over the past year Jim Butcher has had the most page views in the with 148,860 views, followed by German (23,008), and Russian (15,828). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are West Frisian (126.39%), Ukrainian (40.96%), and German (30.40%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jim Butcher ranks 6,801 out of 7,302. Before him are Zoran Stefanović, Timothy Findley, Marcel Beyer, Julia Franck, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Deborah Harkness. After him are Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Kaori Ekuni, Russell Hoban, Mary L. Trump, and Anne Waldman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Jim Butcher ranks 579. Before him are Jason Hughes, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Robert da Silva Almeida, Kevin Rahm, Taye Diggs, and Melinda Kinnaman. After him are Davide Gualtieri, David Rikl, Robin Finck, Cory Doctorow, Khaled Massad, and Randy Blythe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Butcher ranks 14,070 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel W. Bursch (1957), Brutus Beefcake (1957), Roscoe Conkling (1829), Johnny Gioeli (1967), Melanie Mayron (1952), and Deborah Harkness (1965). After him are Patricia Barry (1921), David Lovering (1961), Sarah Roemer (1984), Margaret Heckler (1931), Angela Ahrendts (1960), and Brian Dietzen (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jim Butcher ranks 1,024. Before him are D. C. Fontana (1939), Dave Meltzer (1959), Philip Levine (1928), Ti-Grace Atkinson (1938), Maxine Hong Kingston (1940), and Deborah Harkness (1965). After him are Jonathan Lethem (1964), Russell Hoban (1925), Mary L. Trump (1965), Anne Waldman (1945), Noah Hawley (1967), and Charles Portis (1933).

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