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Joseph Heller

1923 - 1999

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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Heller has received more than 1,003,152 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Joseph Heller is the 2,078th most popular writer (down from 1,996th in 2019), the 2,610th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,360th in 2019) and the 250th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Heller ranks 2,078 out of 5,794. Before him are Joseph Joffo, Albert Gleizes, Michel de Ghelderode, Musa Cälil, Vsevolod Garshin, and Anton Hansen Tammsaare. After him are Francis Jammes, Vasile Alecsandri, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Countess of Ségur, and Richard Bandler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Joseph Heller ranks 120. Before him are Onofre Marimón, Peter Lawford, Edward Mulhare, Alexandre Astruc, Erroll Garner, and Richard Pipes. After him are Cheikh Anta Diop, Agatha Barbara, Álvaro Mutis, Estelle Getty, Uziel Gal, and Alexander Yakovlev. Among people deceased in 1999, Joseph Heller ranks 78. Before him are Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Phaedon Gizikis, Maurice Couve de Murville, Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Leon Štukelj, and Aldo van Eyck. After him are Jean Guitton, Curtis Mayfield, Igor Netto, Morris West, Giant Baba, and Michel Petrucciani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Heller ranks 2,610 out of 15,968. Before him are Linda Ronstadt (1946), Billy Drago (1945), Walter Koenig (1936), John Glover (1944), Robert Garrett (1875), and David Wilkerson (1931). After him are Ruth Handler (1916), Kate Jackson (1948), Jane Alexander (1939), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Clyde Tolson (1900), and Richard Bandler (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joseph Heller ranks 250. Before him are Margaret Fuller (1810), Kate Millett (1934), Edward Bellamy (1850), Tony Robbins (1960), William Moulton Marston (1893), and Clark Ashton Smith (1893). After him are Richard Bandler (1950), Frank McCourt (1930), Kate Chopin (1850), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), and Winston Groom (1943).

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