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Joan Didion

1934 - 2021

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Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Didion has received more than 5,932,297 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Joan Didion is the 1,739th most popular writer (down from 1,055th in 2019), the 2,181st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,266th in 2019) and the 190th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joan Didion ranks 1,739 out of 7,302. Before her are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Augusto Roa Bastos, Robert de Boron, Stanisław Wyspiański, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and William Carlos Williams. After her are Konstantin Ushinsky, Peter Abrahams, Ippolita Maria Sforza, Banine, Gaius Julius Solinus, and David Burliuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Joan Didion ranks 112. Before her are Jean Sorel, Garry Marshall, Fredric Jameson, Kisho Kurokawa, Tony Hoare, and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma. After her are Omar Karami, Kira Muratova, Paul Cohen, Gloria Steinem, Howard Martin Temin, and Wilford Brimley. Among people deceased in 2021, Joan Didion ranks 120. Before her are Ahmed Jibril, Manuel Santana, Lucinda Riley, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Cloris Leachman, and Humberto Maturana. After her are Edward Cassidy, Adam Zagajewski, Renée Simonot, Jimmy Greaves, Marshall Sahlins, and Hank Aaron.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Didion ranks 2,181 out of 20,380. Before her are George Phillips Bond (1825), Fess Parker (1924), Tobe Hooper (1943), William Carlos Williams (1883), Ron Johnson (1955), and Peter Diamond (1940). After her are Buddy Rich (1917), W. I. Thomas (1863), Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921), Cindy Crawford (1966), John Barrymore (1882), and Henry King (1886).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joan Didion ranks 190. Before her are Bernard Malamud (1914), Lewis Mumford (1895), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), E. E. Cummings (1894), Ken Wilber (1949), and William Carlos Williams (1883). After her are Edmond Hamilton (1904), Dorothy Parker (1893), Richard Ford (1944), Suzanne Collins (1962), Raymond E. Feist (1945), and Patricia Cornwell (1956).

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