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Marilyn French

1929 - 2009

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Marilyn French (née Edwards; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author, most widely known for her second book and first novel, the 1977 work The Women's Room. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marilyn French has received more than 165,009 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Marilyn French is the 3,755th most popular writer (up from 4,437th in 2019), the 4,815th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,192nd in 2019) and the 400th most popular American Writer.

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  • 50.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marilyn French ranks 3,755 out of 7,302. Before her are Luigi Capuana, John Gray, Girolamo de Rada, Ian Rankin, Hal Clement, and Judith Gautier. After her are Edna O'Brien, Pyotr Tkachev, Simin Behbahani, Rupert Brooke, Samad Behrangi, and Yuli Daniel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Marilyn French ranks 269. Before her are Stanisław Mikulski, Rudi Glöckner, Vija Artmane, John Turner, Francesco Alberoni, and Tomislav Crnković. After her are Paavo Berglund, Kiki Håkansson, Carlo Ubbiali, Walter Kempowski, Duje Bonačić, and Jane Powell. Among people deceased in 2009, Marilyn French ranks 180. Before her are Karen Harup, Fritz Darges, Grigore Vieru, Betsy Blair, Dom DeLuise, and Tomislav Crnković. After her are Venetia Burney, Hans Klenk, Riccardo Cassin, Péter Bacsó, Edward Woodward, and Gene Barry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marilyn French ranks 4,815 out of 20,380. Before her are Mildred McDaniel (1933), John Gray (1951), John Hay (1838), Kelly Hu (1968), Hal Clement (1922), and Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818). After her are Cyrus McCormick (1809), Bayard Rustin (1912), Tom Noonan (1951), Paul Scheuring (1968), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), and Sam Jaffe (1891).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marilyn French ranks 400. Before her are Joe Haldeman (1943), Janet Asimov (1926), James A. Michener (1907), Og Mandino (1923), John Gray (1951), and Hal Clement (1922). After her are Brandon Sanderson (1975), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Francis Scott Key (1779), Henry Adams (1838), and David Brin (1950).

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