WRITER

Larry Niven

1938 - Today

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Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Niven has received more than 1,100,978 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Larry Niven is the 2,781st most popular writer (down from 2,493rd in 2019), the 3,538th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,241st in 2019) and the 306th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Larry Niven ranks 2,781 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexandre Herculano, Sibilla Aleramo, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Varian Fry, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, and Josephine Tey. After him are Marion Chesney, Guido Guinizelli, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Carl Sandburg, Kamo no Chōmei, and Matthías Jochumsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Larry Niven ranks 212. Before him are Ralph Bakshi, Perry Anderson, Rauno Aaltonen, Chuan Leekpai, Lee Morgan, and Jim Simons. After him are Richard Beymer, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Lawrence Block, Grethe Ingmann, Eiko Ishioka, and Venedikt Yerofeyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Niven ranks 3,538 out of 20,380. Before him are Eddie Adams (1933), Varian Fry (1907), Tony Goldwyn (1960), Louis Prima (1910), Jimmy McLane (1930), and Marie Smith Jones (1918). After him are Robert Lansing (1864), Carl Sandburg (1878), Don Norman (1935), Richard Beymer (1938), Paul Gleason (1939), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Larry Niven ranks 306. Before him are Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), Stephenie Meyer (1973), Harold Robbins (1916), Carl Bernstein (1944), John Zerzan (1943), and Varian Fry (1907). After him are Carl Sandburg (1878), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Ben Hecht (1893), William L. Shirer (1904), Anne McCaffrey (1926), and Maurice Sendak (1928).

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