WRITER

Lilian Jackson Braun

1913 - 2011

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Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913 – June 4, 2011) was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of The Cat Who... mystery novels. The Cat Who books features newspaper journalist Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats, Koko (short for Kao K'o Kung) and Yum Yum, first in an unnamed midwestern American city and then in the fictitious small town of Pickax located in Moose County "400 miles north of everywhere". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lilian Jackson Braun has received more than 366,839 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lilian Jackson Braun is the 4,094th most popular writer (down from 3,240th in 2019), the 5,374th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,260th in 2019) and the 441st most popular American Writer.

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  • 370k

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  • 50.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 4,094 out of 7,302. Before her are Saadat Hasan Manto, James Krüss, Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Eric Frank Russell, David Crane, and T. C. Boyle. After her are Petrus Borel, Jean de Brunhoff, Sergei Mavrodi, Izzat Ghazzawi, Aleko Konstantinov, and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 204. Before her are Julius Döpfner, Rudolf Noack, Vicente Calderón, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Iosif Grigulevich, and Gangubai Hangal. After her are Sándor Weöres, René Llense, Ad Reinhardt, Yakov Zak, Eugene Lazowski, and Richard Helms. Among people deceased in 2011, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 233. Before her are Ricky Bruch, Tore Sjöstrand, Nat Lofthouse, Karen Khachaturian, Ulrich Biesinger, and Karl Aage Præst. After her are Andrée Chedid, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Nilla Pizzi, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Radivoje Ognjanović, and Dorian Gray.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 5,374 out of 20,380. Before her are Pat Martino (1944), David Crane (1957), Irwin Winkler (1931), Glenn Davis (1934), T. C. Boyle (1948), and Betsy Palmer (1926). After her are Harry Hamlin (1951), Brian G. Hutton (1935), Marc Lawrence (1910), Lynn Anderson (1947), Mark Tornillo (1954), and Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 441. Before her are James Redfield (1950), E. B. White (1899), Gary Chapman (1938), Daniel Silva (1960), David Crane (1957), and T. C. Boyle (1948). After her are Mona Simpson (1957), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Kathy Acker (1947), Glen A. Larson (1937), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), and Hart Crane (1899).

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