WRITER

Lois McMaster Bujold

1949 - Today

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lois McMaster Bujold has received more than 715,020 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Lois McMaster Bujold is the 2,548th most popular writer (up from 2,588th in 2019), the 3,218th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,373rd in 2019) and the 279th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lois McMaster Bujold ranks 2,548 out of 7,302Before her are Şihabetdin Märcani, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Alexandra Ripley, Philo of Byblos, Juan del Encina, and Al-Asmaʿi. After her are Cornelis de Bruijn, Dorothea von Schlegel, Noël Coward, Amélie Nothomb, Andrea Dworkin, and Ivan Yefremov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Lois McMaster Bujold ranks 196Before her are Andranik Margaryan, Pierre Buyoya, Nawaz Sharif, Alain Finkielkraut, Josip Bozanić, and Brent Spiner. After her are George Dalaras, Rakesh Sharma, Paulo Cézar Caju, Judith Resnik, Papa Wemba, and Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lois McMaster Bujold ranks 3,218 out of 20,380Before her are Brent Spiner (1949), Alexandra Ripley (1934), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Christian Slater (1969), Sherm Clark (1899), and Eric Hoffer (1898). After her are Douglas Diamond (1953), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Joseph Valachi (1904), Edith Head (1897), Jennifer Rush (1960), and M. Emmet Walsh (1935).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lois McMaster Bujold ranks 279Before her are Donald E. Westlake (1933), Margaret Fuller (1810), John Edward Williams (1922), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), Katherine Jackson (1930), and Alexandra Ripley (1934). After her are Andrea Dworkin (1946), John Barth (1930), L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Elmore Leonard (1925), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), and Jim Thompson (1906).