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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, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Didion wrote essays for The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Didion has received more than 5,550,190 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Joan Didion is the 1,057th most popular writer (up from 1,993rd in 2019), the 1,266th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,496th in 2019) and the 127th most popular American Writer.

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  • 60.55

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  • 36

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  • 2.99

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  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joan Didion ranks 1,057 out of 5,755. Before her are Kobayashi Issa, Emil Ludwig, Alfred Brehm, Adalbert Stifter, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Erskine Caldwell. After her are Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Graves, Leonid Andreyev, Adalberon, Irwin Shaw, and Branislav Nušić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Joan Didion ranks 64. Before her are Marshall Rosenberg, Fujiko Fujio, Giovanni Battista Re, Bettino Craxi, Brian Epstein, and Tassos Papadopoulos. After her are Udo Jürgens, Rudolf Schuster, Hans Hollein, Leonid Rogozov, Kurt Hamrin, and Ingvar Carlsson. Among people deceased in 2021, Joan Didion ranks 79. Before her are Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Nelson Freire, Richard Donner, Ei-ichi Negishi, János Kornai, and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta. After her are Abdul Qadeer Khan, Ed Asner, Robert H. Grubbs, Borisav Jović, Bertrand Tavernier, and Kim Yong-ju.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Didion ranks 1,266 out of 18,182. Before her are Erskine Caldwell (1903), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Chris Columbus (1958), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Lisa Kudrow (1963), and John Forsythe (1918). After her are Dennis Rader (1945), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Irwin Shaw (1913), Anthony Mann (1906), Cormac McCarthy (1933), and Joseph Kosuth (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joan Didion ranks 127. Before her are Clive Cussler (1931), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Will Durant (1885), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Fredric Brown (1906), and Erskine Caldwell (1903). After her are Irwin Shaw (1913), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Edith Wharton (1862), Nora Roberts (1950), Harry Harrison (1925), and Virginia Henderson (1897).

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