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Mona Simpson

1957 - Today

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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 3,665,098 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mona Simpson is the 4,111th most popular writer (down from 3,884th in 2019), the 5,391st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,235th in 2019) and the 442nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mona Simpson ranks 4,111 out of 7,302. Before her are Alexander of Abonoteichus, Ahmed Rami, Emanuel Geibel, Berta Zuckerkandl, Marietta Shaginyan, and Marie-Claire Blais. After her are Johann Georg von Hahn, Lisa Tetzner, Ngaio Marsh, Ō no Yasumaro, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, and Cemal Süreya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Mona Simpson ranks 199. Before her are Timothy Treadwell, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Bojan Križaj, David Crane, K. Sivan, and Lothaire Bluteau. After her are Christer Fuglesang, Steve Davis, Ioannis Sarmas, Len Blavatnik, Jackie Shroff, and Lori Singer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mona Simpson ranks 5,391 out of 20,380. Before her are Tom Hamilton (1951), John Warner (1927), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Charlotte Stewart (1941), Ad Reinhardt (1913), and Brad Harris (1933). After her are Frank James (1843), Henry Cowell (1897), Gregory Hoblit (1944), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984), Vivien Thomas (1910), and Robert Chartoff (1933).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mona Simpson ranks 442. Before her are E. B. White (1899), Gary Chapman (1938), Daniel Silva (1960), David Crane (1957), T. C. Boyle (1948), and Lilian Jackson Braun (1913). After her are Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Kathy Acker (1947), Glen A. Larson (1937), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), Hart Crane (1899), and Conrad Aiken (1889).

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