WRITER

Maurice Sendak

1928 - 2012

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Maurice Bernard Sendak (; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. His book Where the Wild Things Are was first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Sendak has received more than 1,754,276 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Sendak is the 2,862nd most popular writer (down from 2,076th in 2019), the 3,618th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,715th in 2019) and the 312th most popular American Writer.

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  • 43

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  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maurice Sendak ranks 2,862 out of 7,302. Before him are Irvine Welsh, Leonid Leonov, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Dmitry Likhachov, Anne McCaffrey, and Bernardo Dovizi. After him are Ferenc Kazinczy, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kostis Palamas, Anthony Horowitz, Gu Yanwu, and Jonathan Franzen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Maurice Sendak ranks 232. Before him are Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Rosemary Clooney, Eric Dolphy, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Ara Güler, and Vitaliy Masol. After him are Frederick Stafford, Robert Indiana, Ethel Kennedy, Bengt Gustavsson, Franciszek Pieczka, and Horace Silver. Among people deceased in 2012, Maurice Sendak ranks 146. Before him are John Atta Mills, Lisa Della Casa, Besse Cooper, Josef Škvorecký, Blagoje Adžić, and Alexis Weissenberg. After him are Jiří Raška, Dawoud Rajiha, Eiko Ishioka, Sage Stallone, Ivica Horvat, and Eve Arnold.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maurice Sendak ranks 3,618 out of 20,380. Before him are Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), Martha Chase (1927), Gina Gershon (1962), James Denton (1963), Anne McCaffrey (1926), and Ronnie Van Zant (1948). After him are John Krasinski (1979), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), Edith Wilson (1872), Marsha Hunt (1917), Anne Revere (1903), and Alexander Vandegrift (1887).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Maurice Sendak ranks 312. Before him are Larry Niven (1938), Carl Sandburg (1878), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Ben Hecht (1893), William L. Shirer (1904), and Anne McCaffrey (1926). After him are Jonathan Franzen (1959), Jack Williamson (1908), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Lucia Berlin (1936), Lawrence Block (1938), and Andre Norton (1912).

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