WRITER

John Edward Williams

1922 - 1994

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John Edward Williams (August 29, 1922 – March 3, 1994) was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Edward Williams has received more than 432,292 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Edward Williams is the 2,525th most popular writer (down from 2,169th in 2019), the 3,201st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,826th in 2019) and the 275th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Stoner
domestic fiction, psychological fiction, Literature
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
1965
Butcher's Crossing
American bison hunting, Western stories, Fiction
1960
Firs t English Pikto dictionary
Dictionaries, English language, Pikto
1959
Augustus
History, Emperors, Fiction
1972
English Renaissance poetry
Renaissance, English poetry, Poésie anglaise
1963

Page views of John Edward Williams by language

Over the past year John Edward Williams has had the most page views in the with 73,962 views, followed by German (10,885), and Italian (10,667). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (327.05%), Spanish (99.24%), and West Frisian (55.17%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Edward Williams ranks 2,525 out of 7,302. Before him are Suman Pokhrel, T. H. White, Praxilla, Bernard Werber, Margaret Fuller, and Heinrich Hoffmann. After him are John Mandeville, Jung Chang, Heinz G. Konsalik, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, John Edward Williams ranks 172. Before him are Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Esther Lederberg, Maila Nurmi, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Manshuk Mametova, and Otl Aicher. After him are Esther Brand, George Knobel, Raymond Franz, Hammer DeRoburt, Jean Malaurie, and Hilarion Capucci. Among people deceased in 1994, John Edward Williams ranks 127. Before him are Claude Akins, Derek Jarman, Zail Singh, Motoo Kimura, Stephen Cole Kleene, and Dean Rusk. After him are Frederick Copleston, Billy Wright, Joe Pass, William Conrad, Stanisław Maczek, and Lindsay Anderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Edward Williams ranks 3,201 out of 20,380. Before him are Reggie Jackson (1946), Divine (1945), Anne Ramsey (1929), Bill Nunn (1953), Margaret Fuller (1810), and John Wesley Hyatt (1837). After him are Zach Galifianakis (1969), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), David Petraeus (1952), Andrew Fire (1959), Laurie Metcalf (1955), and Johnny Carson (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Edward Williams ranks 275. Before him are Richard Wright (1908), Michael Bishop (1945), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Ron Kovic (1946), Donald E. Westlake (1933), and Margaret Fuller (1810). After him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), Katherine Jackson (1930), Alexandra Ripley (1934), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Andrea Dworkin (1946), and John Barth (1930).

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