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John Varley

1947 - Today

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John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Varley has received more than 22,415 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Varley is the 5,448th most popular writer (down from 4,769th in 2019), the 8,064th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,961st in 2019) and the 627th most popular American Writer.

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  • 22k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Varley ranks 5,448 out of 7,302. Before him are Ádám Bodor, Aquilino Ribeiro, Milan Rúfus, Lukas Moodysson, Kate Atkinson, and John Antoine Nau. After him are William Muir, Jacques-Pierre Amette, Roger Hargreaves, Stratis Myrivilis, Antonio Gamoneda, and Jorge de Sena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, John Varley ranks 591. Before him are Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Subhash Kak, Babita, Rakhee Gulzar, Theda Skocpol, and Charles Rabemananjara. After him are Arkady Andreasyan, Tamotsu Suzuki, Andrea Martin, Peter Osgood, Ricardo Delgado, and Blagoje Paunović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Varley ranks 8,064 out of 20,380. Before him are Big Pun (1971), Moira Kelly (1968), John Antoine Nau (1860), Thomas Ewing (1789), Arthur Freed (1894), and Carleton S. Coon (1904). After him are Michael Mullen (1946), Everett Sloane (1909), Thelma Houston (1946), Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929), Peter Mark Richman (1927), and Tom McCarthy (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Varley ranks 627. Before him are Bill O'Reilly (1949), Madeline Miller (1978), Isabel Briggs Myers (1897), Christopher Paolini (1983), Scott O'Dell (1898), and John Antoine Nau (1860). After him are Richard Scarry (1919), Jeffrey Eugenides (1960), Martin Cruz Smith (1942), Amy Tan (1952), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836), and John Keel (1930).

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