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Louise Erdrich

1954 - Today

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Karen Louise Erdrich ( ER-drik; born June 7, 1954) is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Erdrich has received more than 1,506,001 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Louise Erdrich is the 4,184th most popular writer (up from 5,083rd in 2019), the 5,528th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,697th in 2019) and the 450th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louise Erdrich ranks 4,184 out of 7,302. Before her are Lydia Chukovskaya, Sahar Khalifeh, Rachid Boudjedra, Miyamoto Yuriko, René Depestre, and Leigh Brackett. After her are William Langland, Sonny Barger, Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier, Frans Michael Franzén, Almudena Grandes, and Dan Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Louise Erdrich ranks 247. Before her are Mark Tornillo, François Van der Elst, Ingrid Daubechies, Catherine Bach, Wolfgang Becker, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. After her are Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Mauro Baldi, Angelo De Donatis, Roy Jacobsen, Hansi Hinterseer, and Dragan Vasiljković.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Erdrich ranks 5,528 out of 20,380. Before her are Randy Jackson (1961), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), Frank Thomas (1912), Peggy Whitson (1960), Raoul Trujillo (1955), and Leigh Brackett (1915). After her are Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Tammy Wynette (1942), Billy Cox (1939), Sonny Barger (1938), Lee Falk (1911), and Garry Shandling (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Louise Erdrich ranks 450. Before her are Kathy Acker (1947), Glen A. Larson (1937), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), Hart Crane (1899), Conrad Aiken (1889), and Leigh Brackett (1915). After her are Sonny Barger (1938), Ida B. Wells (1862), Theodore Roszak (1933), Charlaine Harris (1951), Erica Jong (1942), and Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863).

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