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John Keel

1930 - 2009

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John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle (March 25, 1930 – July 3, 2009), was an American journalist and influential ufologist who is known best as author of The Mothman Prophecies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Keel has received more than 393,595 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Keel is the 4,848th most popular writer, the 7,096th most popular biography from United States and the 574th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Keel ranks 4,848 out of 5,755Before him are Isabel-Clara Simó, José Bergamín, Werner Bergengruen, Osman Nuri Topbaş, Giorgi Leonidze, and Álvares de Azevedo. After him are Joseph Meyer, L. J. Smith, Victoire Léodile Béra, Michael Scott, Francis Bebey, and Margery Kempe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, John Keel ranks 391Before him are Vera T. Sós, Innes Ireland, Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, Henry Lincoln, Polly Bergen, and Edoardo Sanguineti. After him are Adolf Born, Elmira Minita Gordon, Jacques Parizeau, Monique Mercure, Burt Kwouk, and Jack Taylor. Among people deceased in 2009, John Keel ranks 254Before him are Sergei Magnitsky, Türkan Saylan, Olja Ivanjicki, Roger Planchon, Ingemar Johansson, and Lei Clijsters. After him are Umberto Betti, Helen Levitt, Lloyd Ruby, Rose Friedman, Idea Vilariño, and Alfred Hrdlicka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Keel ranks 7,096 out of 18,182Before him are Jerry Hardin (1929), Betty Bronson (1906), Candida Royalle (1950), Mary Anderson (1918), Galo Plaza (1906), and Billy Cunningham (1943). After him are Carl Johnson (1898), James Joseph Dresnok (1941), Amar Bose (1929), Chyler Leigh (1982), Criss Angel (1967), and Edward Condon (1902).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Keel ranks 574Before him are Jack Finney (1911), Ernest Lehman (1915), Robert Lowell (1917), Ernie Pyle (1900), Candace Bushnell (1958), and Dee Brown (1908). After him are L. J. Smith (1965), Kenneth Copeland (1936), Karin Slaughter (1971), Rita Mae Brown (1944), John Green (1977), and Gardner Fox (1911).