1957 - Today
Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at University of California, Berkeley, and languages and literature at Columbia University. She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mona Simpson has received more than 3,450,564 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Mona Simpson is the 3,897th most popular writer (up from 4,338th in 2019), the 5,247th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,247th in 2019) and the 437th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Mona Simpson ranks 3,897 out of 5,755. Before her are Leonhard Frank, Leonidas of Tarentum, Ida B. Wells, Louis Adamic, Josef Kajetán Tyl, and Frédéric Dard. After her are Susanna Hall, Nirmal Verma, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Mahadev Desai, Francisco Balagtas, and Thaddeus Bulgarin.
1882 - 1961
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 3,891
320 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 3,892
1862 - 1931
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 3,893
1898 - 1951
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 3,894
1808 - 1856
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 3,895
1921 - 2000
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 3,896
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 3,897
1583 - 1649
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 3,898
1929 - 2005
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 3,899
1810 - 1876
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 3,900
1892 - 1942
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 3,901
1788 - 1862
HPI: 48.92
Rank: 3,902
1789 - 1859
HPI: 48.92
Rank: 3,903
Among people born in 1957, Mona Simpson ranks 167. Before her are Hervé Le Tellier, Eric S. Raymond, Robert Sapolsky, Christian Berkel, Tony Abbott, and Steve Davis. After her are Bryan Robson, Achille Mbembe, Miquel Barceló, Genie, Reinaldo Rueda, and Cécilia Attias.
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 161
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 162
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 163
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 164
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 165
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 166
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 167
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 168
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 169
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 170
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 171
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 172
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 173
Among people born in United States, Mona Simpson ranks 5,247 out of 18,182. Before her are Jeane Dixon (1904), Emily Kinney (1985), Robert Urich (1946), Janet Margolin (1943), Harry Partch (1901), and Joan Blondell (1906). After her are Beah Richards (1920), Richard Estes (1932), Alan Lomax (1915), Ginger Lynn (1962), Glenn Danzig (1955), and Jack Nitzsche (1937).
1904 - 1997
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 5,241
1985 - Present
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 5,242
1946 - 2002
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 5,243
1943 - 1993
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 5,244
1901 - 1974
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,245
1906 - 1979
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,246
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,247
1920 - 2000
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,248
1932 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,249
1915 - 2002
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,250
1962 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 5,251
1955 - Present
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 5,252
1937 - 2000
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 5,253
Among writers born in United States, Mona Simpson ranks 437. Before her are Aaron Sorkin (1961), Peter Straub (1943), Paula Fox (1923), Nathanael West (1903), T. C. Boyle (1948), and Ida B. Wells (1862). After her are Leigh Brackett (1915), Mike Resnick (1942), Gordon Willis (1931), Edna Ferber (1885), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), and Shel Silverstein (1930).
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 431
1943 - 2022
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 432
1923 - 2017
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 433
1903 - 1940
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 434
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 435
1862 - 1931
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 436
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 437
1915 - 1978
HPI: 48.92
Rank: 438
1942 - 2020
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 439
1931 - 2014
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 440
1885 - 1968
HPI: 48.83
Rank: 441
1964 - Present
HPI: 48.81
Rank: 442
1930 - 1999
HPI: 48.81
Rank: 443