WRITER

Lawrence Block

1938 - Today

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Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Block has received more than 534,366 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Lawrence Block is the 2,875th most popular writer (down from 2,522nd in 2019), the 3,638th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,269th in 2019) and the 317th most popular American Writer.

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  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lawrence Block ranks 2,875 out of 7,302. Before him are Giacomo da Lentini, Jack Williamson, Robert Penn Warren, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Lucia Berlin, and Erich Fried. After him are Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Gideon Levy, Michael Bond, Pierre Gamarra, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, and Andre Norton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lawrence Block ranks 215. Before him are Chuan Leekpai, Lee Morgan, Jim Simons, Larry Niven, Richard Beymer, and Manuel Monteiro de Castro. After him are Grethe Ingmann, Eiko Ishioka, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Michel Duchaussoy, Behrouz Vossoughi, and McCoy Tyner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Block ranks 3,638 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenny Clarke (1914), Christina Grimmie (1994), Jane Lynch (1960), Lucia Berlin (1936), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), and Whitfield Diffie (1944). After him are Robert Indiana (1928), David Arquette (1971), Maureen Connolly (1934), Donald Davidson (1917), Ethel Kennedy (1928), and Andrea Mead Lawrence (1932).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lawrence Block ranks 317. Before him are Anne McCaffrey (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), Jonathan Franzen (1959), Jack Williamson (1908), Robert Penn Warren (1905), and Lucia Berlin (1936). After him are Andre Norton (1912), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), Budd Schulberg (1914), Tony Robbins (1960), Glen Cook (1944), and Howard Fast (1914).

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