WRITER

Marge Piercy

1936 - Today

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marge Piercy has received more than 358,770 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marge Piercy is the 6,761st most popular writer (down from 5,991st in 2019), the 13,823rd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,236th in 2019) and the 1,011th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Gone to soldiers
World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
1987
Braided lives
Fiction, Cousins, Feminist fiction
1982
Third Child
Fiction, romance, general
2003
Vida
Fiction, Revolutionaries, Fiction in English
1979
Marge Piercy
English fiction, Hispanic American women, Fiction
Onetime college girl, loving mother, pickpocket, and unmarried mourning wife Consuelo Ramos, imprisoned in a New York mental hospital for assaulting a pimp, hovers between a future of life dominant and an endless present of neuroelectric experimentation
1976
Small changes
Fiction, Married women, Lesbians
1972

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marge Piercy ranks 6,761 out of 7,302. Before her are H. Beam Piper, Kamel Daoud, James K. Morrow, George Etherege, Horton Foote, and Allen Tate. After her are Stanley Middleton, Howard Gordon, Sharon Olds, Miro Gavran, Michael Davitt, and Leena Lehtolainen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Marge Piercy ranks 577. Before her are Levi Stubbs, James Frawley, Marion Barry, Bob Graham, Freddy Cannon, and Virginia Hamilton. After her are Mihály Fülöp, Dick Barnett, Garfield Sobers, Saginaw Grant, Jimmy Ruffin, and Sushma Seth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marge Piercy ranks 13,823 out of 20,380. Before her are Horton Foote (1916), Brian J. Smith (1981), Buck Jones (1891), Morgan Spurlock (1970), Chelsea Manning (1987), and Allen Tate (1899). After her are The D.O.C. (1968), Albert William Herre (1868), Virginia Gardner (1995), Mark Price (1964), Rose McConnell Long (1892), and Howard Gordon (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marge Piercy ranks 1,011. Before her are Zoe Akins (1886), Dave Eggers (1970), H. Beam Piper (1904), James K. Morrow (1947), Horton Foote (1916), and Allen Tate (1899). After her are Howard Gordon (1961), Sharon Olds (1942), Katharine Lee Bates (1859), Justin Cronin (1962), Brannon Braga (1965), and Bryan Fuller (1969).

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