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Joseph Campbell

1904 - 1987

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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Campbell has received more than 4,929,612 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Joseph Campbell is the 882nd most popular writer (down from 706th in 2019), the 973rd most popular biography from United States (down from 800th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Writer.

Joseph Campbell is most famous for his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book, he discusses the archetypal hero's journey, which consists of three phases: separation, initiation, and return.

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  • 4.35

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Among writers, Joseph Campbell ranks 882 out of 7,302. Before him are Wilbur Smith, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Shklovsky, Ghassan Kanafani, Dashiell Hammett, and Luis Sepúlveda. After him are Theodoret, Fatema Mernissi, Marko Marulić, Jorge Semprún, Marilyn vos Savant, and Cormac McCarthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Joseph Campbell ranks 42. Before him are Wendell Meredith Stanley, George F. Kennan, Alejo Carpentier, Lucile Randon, Willem de Kooning, and Odilo Globočnik. After him are Nikolai Ostrovsky, Clifford D. Simak, Otto Robert Frisch, Héctor Castro, Karl Rahner, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. Among people deceased in 1987, Joseph Campbell ranks 31. Before him are Jacqueline du Pré, John Huston, Georg Wittig, Jacques Anquetil, Jean Anouilh, and Andrés Segovia. After him are Nobusuke Kishi, Jaco Pastorius, Didier Pironi, André Masson, Einar Gerhardsen, and Douglas Sirk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Campbell ranks 973 out of 20,380. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Dashiell Hammett (1894), John Cassavetes (1929), Lynn Margulis (1938), Bette Midler (1945), and Mildred Harris (1901). After him are Tom Waits (1949), Julius Axelrod (1912), James Horner (1953), Ritchie Valens (1941), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), and Richard Dreyfuss (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joseph Campbell ranks 91. Before him are Maya Angelou (1928), Daniel Keyes (1927), Neale Donald Walsch (1943), John Fante (1909), Ambrose Bierce (1842), and Dashiell Hammett (1894). After him are Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Daniel Goleman (1946), Roger Zelazny (1937), Sherwood Anderson (1876), and L. Ron Hubbard (1911).

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