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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1896 - 1953

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has received more than 591,782 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is the 5,572nd most popular writer (down from 5,222nd in 2019), the 9,510th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,078th in 2019) and the 733rd most popular American Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 5,572 out of 5,755. Before her are Peter Gould, Stephen R. Donaldson, Andreas Eschbach, Stanisław Barańczak, Gillian Flynn, and James Dickey. After her are Meindert DeJong, Birger Sjöberg, Jodi Picoult, Kurt Marti, Anna Haava, and Beryl Bainbridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 233. Before her are Marie Prevost, Carl Abrahamsson, Heinz Prüfer, Liam O'Flaherty, Natalie Talmadge, and Yip Harburg. After her are Rodolfo Terlizzi, Okuro Oikawa, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Priscilla Dean, Pavel Antokolsky, and Cyril Slater. Among people deceased in 1953, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 158. Before her are Francis Ford, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Arthur Berry, Luis Alberto Riart, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, and Asaf Ali. After her are Robert Stangland, David Curtiss Munson, Albert Coates, Robert G. Vignola, Fred M. Vinson, and Norman Ross.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 9,510 out of 18,182. Before her are Sean Paul Lockhart (1986), James Dickey (1923), Richard Hofstadter (1916), Candice King (1987), Dusty Anderson (1918), and Nicholas Brendon (1971). After her are Kevin Nealon (1953), Mike Mignola (1960), Bernard Edwards (1952), Edward C. Stone (1936), Gregory Porter (1971), and Harvey Pekar (1939).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 733. Before her are Bess Meredyth (1890), Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818), Peter Gould (1950), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), Gillian Flynn (1971), and James Dickey (1923). After her are Jodi Picoult (1966), Chaz Bono (1969), Lloyd C. Douglas (1877), Tom Brokaw (1940), Ransom Riggs (1979), and Harry Turtledove (1949).

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