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Madeleine L'Engle

1918 - 2007

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Madeleine L'Engle (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madeleine L'Engle has received more than 1,632,252 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Madeleine L'Engle is the 5,588th most popular writer (down from 4,900th in 2019), the 8,383rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,227th in 2019) and the 647th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 5,588 out of 7,302. Before her are Zofka Kveder, Beryl Markham, Aubrey de Grey, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Lina Morgenstern, and Douglas Coupland. After her are Luigi Galleani, George Lillo, Yordan Radichkov, Fang Fang, Åsne Seierstad, and J. Slauerhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 258. Before her are Yevgeniya Sechenova, Renée Faure, Reinaldo Gorno, Mariano Mores, Peter Poreku Dery, and Tranquilo Cappozzo. After her are Yelizaveta Chaikina, Gunnel Vallquist, Axel Grönberg, Douglas Bennett, Donald Regan, and Anne Gwynne. Among people deceased in 2007, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 317. Before her are The Fabulous Moolah, Tetsuo Okamoto, Anita Roddick, Giorgio Anglesio, Grace Paley, and Pief Panofsky. After her are Srđan Mrkušić, Laraine Day, Atilio Cremaschi, Leslie Orgel, Noël Milarew Odingar, and John Gardner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 8,383 out of 20,380. Before her are Frank Piasecki (1919), Lee Calhoun (1933), Raymond T. Odierno (1954), Sophia Bush (1982), Henry Dreyfuss (1904), and Barbara Bonney (1956). After her are Gailard Sartain (1946), Robert L. Eichelberger (1886), Dominique Swain (1980), Mary Wilson (1944), Chris Paul (1985), and Melissa Belote (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 647. Before her are Tom Robbins (1932), Grace Paley (1922), Larry McMurtry (1936), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), Barbara Ehrenreich (1941), and Steven Millhauser (1943). After her are Marilyn Ferguson (1938), Whittaker Chambers (1901), L. J. Smith (1965), James C. Collins (1958), Judith Krantz (1928), and Howard Ashman (1950).

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