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Jonathan Lethem

1964 - Today

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Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Lethem has received more than 710,549 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jonathan Lethem is the 6,802nd most popular writer (down from 6,157th in 2019), the 14,080th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,225th in 2019) and the 1,025th most popular American Writer.

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  • 710k

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  • 37.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jonathan Lethem ranks 6,802 out of 7,302Before him are Timothy Findley, Marcel Beyer, Julia Franck, Maxine Hong Kingston, Deborah Harkness, and Jim Butcher. After him are Cory Doctorow, Kaori Ekuni, Russell Hoban, Mary L. Trump, Anne Waldman, and José Luís Peixoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Jonathan Lethem ranks 675Before him are Craig Fairbrass, Alexander Vedernikov, Marc Quinn, Martín Jaite, Andreas Ogris, and Nicolae Juravschi. After him are Pablo Morales, Stefano Palmieri, Kaori Ekuni, Lisa Boyle, Roy Tarpley, and Mayumi Kaji.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jonathan Lethem ranks 14,080 out of 20,380Before him are Margaret Heckler (1931), Angela Ahrendts (1960), Brian Dietzen (1977), Clement Comer Clay (1789), Kiko Mizuhara (1990), and Julia Duffy (1951). After him are Chris Renaud (1966), Tina Majorino (1985), Michael Weston (1973), U-God (1970), Michael Jace (1962), and Shannon Walker (1965).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jonathan Lethem ranks 1,025Before him are Dave Meltzer (1959), Philip Levine (1928), Ti-Grace Atkinson (1938), Maxine Hong Kingston (1940), Deborah Harkness (1965), and Jim Butcher (1971). After him are Russell Hoban (1925), Mary L. Trump (1965), Anne Waldman (1945), Noah Hawley (1967), Charles Portis (1933), and Tom Kapinos (1969).