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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 346,069 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lilian Jackson Braun is the 3,252nd most popular writer (down from 2,922nd in 2019), the 4,272nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,761st in 2019) and the 375th most popular American Writer.

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  • 350k

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  • 50.89

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 3,252 out of 5,755Before her are Şihabetdin Märcani, Ludovico di Varthema, Mikhail Kuzmin, Matthías Jochumsson, Gennadiy Aygi, and Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi. After her are Diane Disney Miller, Alice Schwarzer, Stefanie Zweig, Antonio García Gutiérrez, Roberto Arlt, and Agniya Barto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 158Before her are Johann Niemann, Malcom McLean, Lewis A. Coser, Sourou-Migan Apithy, Mary Kenneth Keller, and Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz. After her are Gustaaf Deloor, Salvador Espriu, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Huang Hua, Samuel Eilenberg, and Tokutaro Ukon. Among people deceased in 2011, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 178Before her are Claude Choules, Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Alfonso Cano, Michael S. Hart, George Shearing, and Ladislav Novák. After her are Wiel Coerver, Erhard Loretan, M. F. Husain, Yevhen Rudakov, Paulette Dubost, and Anatole Abragam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 4,272 out of 18,182Before her are Tim Matheson (1947), Eva Cassidy (1963), Al Unser (1939), Tony Musante (1936), Dorothy Lamour (1914), and Charles Starkweather (1938). After her are Diane Disney Miller (1933), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), Joey Jordison (1975), Greg Kinnear (1963), Penny Marshall (1943), and Sage Stallone (1976).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lilian Jackson Braun ranks 375Before her are Elbert Hubbard (1856), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Wallace Stevens (1879), Bruce Sterling (1954), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), and Willa Cather (1873). After her are Diane Disney Miller (1933), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), William Steig (1907), James Salter (1925), A. Merritt (1884), and John Ashbery (1927).