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Maxine Hong Kingston

1940 - Today

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Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maxine Hong Kingston has received more than 422,047 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Maxine Hong Kingston is the 6,801st most popular writer (down from 6,010th in 2019), the 14,073rd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,307th in 2019) and the 1,022nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 6,801 out of 7,302. Before her are Ti-Grace Atkinson, Russell T Davies, Zoran Stefanović, Timothy Findley, Marcel Beyer, and Julia Franck. After her are Deborah Harkness, Jim Butcher, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Kaori Ekuni, and Russell Hoban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 599. Before her are Ghulam Ali, Warren Cole, Stanley Hauerwas, Don LaFontaine, Madam Auring, and Padma Sachdev. After her are Faimalaga Luka, Bharati Mukherjee, Craig Brown, Robert Pinsky, Adam Faith, and Melba Moore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 14,073 out of 20,380. Before her are Jack Sikma (1955), Teddy Sears (1977), Bud Yorkin (1926), Jason Gedrick (1965), Travis Pastrana (1983), and Steven Sotloff (1983). After her are Daniel W. Bursch (1957), Brutus Beefcake (1957), Roscoe Conkling (1829), Johnny Gioeli (1967), Melanie Mayron (1952), and Deborah Harkness (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 1,022. Before her are Brannon Braga (1965), Bryan Fuller (1969), D. C. Fontana (1939), Dave Meltzer (1959), Philip Levine (1928), and Ti-Grace Atkinson (1938). After her are Deborah Harkness (1965), Jim Butcher (1971), Jonathan Lethem (1964), Russell Hoban (1925), Mary L. Trump (1965), and Anne Waldman (1945).

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