WRITER

Lucia Berlin

1936 - 2004

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Lucia Brown Berlin (November 12, 1936 – November 12, 2004) was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame in 2015, eleven years after her death, with the publication of a volume of her selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucia Berlin has received more than 379,725 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lucia Berlin is the 2,873rd most popular writer (down from 2,810th in 2019), the 3,635th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,685th in 2019) and the 316th most popular American Writer.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lucia Berlin ranks 2,873 out of 7,302. Before her are Gu Yanwu, Jonathan Franzen, Giacomo da Lentini, Jack Williamson, Robert Penn Warren, and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan. After her are Erich Fried, Lawrence Block, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Gideon Levy, Michael Bond, and Pierre Gamarra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Lucia Berlin ranks 218. Before her are Diana Hyland, Shirley Knight, Lien Chan, Frank Caprio, Federico Luppi, and Zdeněk Svěrák. After her are Abbie Hoffman, Antonio Gades, Ian Hacking, Nahum Stelmach, Karl Lehmann, and Guillermo Endara. Among people deceased in 2004, Lucia Berlin ranks 124. Before her are Werner Goldberg, Jacques Georges, Howard Keel, Eddie Adams, Naomi Shemer, and Joe Viterelli. After her are Juan Carlos Aramburu, Jesús Gil, Antonio Gades, Takeshi Kamo, Fred Lawrence Whipple, and Jozef Lenárt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lucia Berlin ranks 3,635 out of 20,380. Before her are Gabriel Almond (1911), Jack Williamson (1908), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Kenny Clarke (1914), Christina Grimmie (1994), and Jane Lynch (1960). After her are Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Whitfield Diffie (1944), Lawrence Block (1938), Robert Indiana (1928), David Arquette (1971), and Maureen Connolly (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lucia Berlin ranks 316. Before her are William L. Shirer (1904), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), Jonathan Franzen (1959), Jack Williamson (1908), and Robert Penn Warren (1905). After her are Lawrence Block (1938), Andre Norton (1912), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), Budd Schulberg (1914), Tony Robbins (1960), and Glen Cook (1944).

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