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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 1,532,750 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Madeleine L'Engle is the 4,917th most popular writer (down from 4,494th in 2019), the 7,242nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,635th in 2019) and the 586th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 4,917 out of 5,755. Before her are Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, Erik Johan Stagnelius, Alki Zei, Inger Hagerup, Halina Poświatowska, and Majit Gafuri. After her are Ádám Bodor, Júlia Szendrey, Pauline Kael, Eva Kotchever, Pentti Saarikoski, and Conrad Aiken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 214. Before her are Sebastian Cabot, Johnnie Parsons, Vladimir Dudintsev, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Anne Stine Ingstad, and Kumar Pallana. After her are Vicente de la Mata, Yevgeniya Sechenova, Hans Berglund, Luis Alcoriza, Gunder Hägg, and Renée Faure. Among people deceased in 2007, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 270. Before her are Ken McGregor, Angelo Conterno, John Winter, Raymond Kaelbel, Johanna Sällström, and Gisela Uhlen. After her are Bam Bam Bigelow, Kirka, Masao Takemoto, Ove Grahn, Chrisye, and Eugen Walaschek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 7,242 out of 18,182. Before her are Campbell Scott (1961), Christopher Lasch (1932), Gary L. Francione (1954), Paul A. Rothchild (1935), Wendie Malick (1950), and Leona Woods (1919). After her are Steve Lawrence (1935), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Steve James (1952), Bernard Hopkins (1965), Meredith Baxter (1947), and Charles Sheeler (1883).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 586. Before her are Gardner Fox (1911), Tom Peters (1942), Ted Chiang (1967), Lester del Rey (1915), Ring Lardner (1885), and Joel Chandler Harris (1848). After her are Pauline Kael (1919), Conrad Aiken (1889), Daniel Quinn (1935), James C. Collins (1958), Nicholas Meyer (1945), and Scott O'Dell (1898).

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