WRITER

Margaret Weis

1948 - Today

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Margaret Edith Weis (; born March 16, 1948) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Weis has received more than 464,218 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Margaret Weis is the 3,869th most popular writer (up from 3,954th in 2019), the 5,005th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,331st in 2019) and the 411th most popular American Writer.

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  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Weis ranks 3,869 out of 7,302Before her are Claude Favre de Vaugelas, William Hazlitt, Ari Behn, Yosef Haim Brenner, Grigor Parlichev, and Johann Baptist Allgaier. After her are Fleur Jaeggy, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Teresa de Lauretis, Shushanik Kurghinian, Nikolay Novikov, and Arthur Waley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Margaret Weis ranks 343Before her are Anatoly Solovyev, Selda Bağcan, Ana Mendieta, Larry Carlton, Arturo Sosa, and Stefania Casini. After her are Dušan Kovačević, Jim Walton, Gary Thain, Humayun Ahmed, Joaquín Almunia, and Susanna Kaysen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Weis ranks 5,005 out of 20,380Before her are Henry Gibson (1935), Leon Russell (1942), Richard Hatch (1945), Zakk Wylde (1967), Joan Van Ark (1943), and John C. Frémont (1813). After her are James Russo (1953), Michael C. Hall (1971), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), Martin Brest (1951), Len Bias (1963), and Sylvia Beach (1887).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Margaret Weis ranks 411Before her are Henry Adams (1838), David Brin (1950), James Russell Lowell (1819), A. Merritt (1884), Marianne Moore (1887), and Herman Wouk (1915). After her are Francis Davis Millet (1848), Lydia Davis (1947), Michael Blake (1945), Carrie Nation (1846), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), and Katherine Anne Porter (1890).