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Paul Auster

1947 - 2024

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Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Auster has received more than 2,115,560 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Paul Auster is the 366th most popular writer (up from 401st in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from United States (up from 409th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Writer.

Paul Auster is an American author, best known for his novels "The New York Trilogy" and "In the Country of Last Things".

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  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Auster ranks 366 out of 7,302. Before him are Margaret Mitchell, Christine de Pizan, Ian Fleming, Mahmoud Darwish, Mario Puzo, and Ahmad ibn Fadlan. After him are Jo Nesbø, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ennius, Octavio Paz, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Tulsidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Paul Auster ranks 20. Before him are Josep Borrell, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Salman Rushdie, James Hunt, Shirin Ebadi, and Mario Draghi. After him are Takeshi Kitano, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Paco de Lucía, Michael Porter, and O. J. Simpson. Among people deceased in 2024, Paul Auster ranks 10. Before him are Maggie Smith, Daniel Kahneman, Donald Sutherland, Alberto Fujimori, Fethullah Gülen, and Peter Higgs. After him are Anouk Aimée, Alice Munro, Ismail Kadare, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and Ismail Haniyeh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Auster ranks 347 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Mitchell (1900), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), Mario Puzo (1920), Sharon Stone (1958), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Calvin Klein (1942). After him are John Cage (1912), Julia Roberts (1967), Fred Astaire (1899), Rachel Carson (1907), Jack Lemmon (1925), and Spencer Tracy (1900).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paul Auster ranks 33. Before him are Henry Miller (1891), Ezra Pound (1885), Louise Glück (1943), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Margaret Mitchell (1900), and Mario Puzo (1920). After him are O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), and Philip Roth (1933).

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