WRITER

Paula Fox

1923 - 2017

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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paula Fox has received more than 1,027,269 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Paula Fox is the 4,953rd most popular writer (down from 3,841st in 2019), the 6,902nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,157th in 2019) and the 553rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Slave Dancer
Slave trade, Newbery Medal, Reading (Elementary)
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
1973
Maurice's room
Children's stories, American, Bedrooms, Family life
1966
The Moonlight Man
Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Juvenile fiction
Fifteen-year-old Catherine and her father take their first joint vacation in Nova Scotia and finally get to know each other.
1986
One-Eyed Cat
Fiction, Cats, Firearms
Ned Wallis knows he's forbidden to touch the rifle in the attic. But he can't resist sneaking it out of the house, just once. Before he realizes it, Ned takes a shot at a dark shadow. When Ned returns home, he's sure he sees a face looking down at him from the attic window. Who has seen and heard him? Ned's feelings of guilt and fear only get worse when one day, while helping an elderly neighbor, he spots a wild cat with one eye missing. Could this be the thing Ned shot at that night? How can Ned bring himself to reveal his painful secret?
1984
Desperate Characters
Fiction, Married women, City and town life
1970
Portrait of Ivan
Fathers and sons, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
1969

Page views of Paula Foxes by language

Over the past year Paula Fox has had the most page views in the with 123,383 views, followed by German (6,673), and Italian (5,664). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (510.00%), Korean (110.97%), and Finnish (73.76%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paula Fox ranks 4,953 out of 7,302. Before her are Märta Tikkanen, Mira Lobe, Mato Kósyk, Mari Jungstedt, Michel Tremblay, and František Halas. After her are Alain Bosquet, Pat Barker, Robert Hugh Benson, Henry Monnier, Alexander Vampilov, and Eben Alexander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Paula Fox ranks 329. Before her are Eugénio de Andrade, Max Jakobson, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Emilio Rodríguez, Carlo Pavesi, and Hrant Shahinyan. After her are Shlomo Hillel, Eduardo Lourenço, Dina Merrill, Bernard Clavel, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Kosta Tomašević. Among people deceased in 2017, Paula Fox ranks 360. Before her are Danuta Szaflarska, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Colin Groves, Heather Menzies, Terele Pávez, and Aleksei Petrenko. After her are Smail Hamdani, István Mészáros, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Dina Merrill, Rodrigo Valdez, and Attilio Nicora.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paula Fox ranks 6,902 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Greene (1945), Sam Altman (1985), Johnny "Guitar" Watson (1935), Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston (1903), Horace W. Babcock (1912), and Mike Larrabee (1933). After her are Edgar Winter (1946), Brenda Song (1988), Michael Learned (1939), Curtis Fuller (1934), Mildred Gillars (1900), and Burt Rutan (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paula Fox ranks 553. Before her are Horatio Alger (1832), C. L. Moore (1911), Diane Ackerman (1948), Edmund Wilson (1895), Mark Frost (1953), and Mary Oliver (1935). After her are Eben Alexander (1953), Frank Belknap Long (1901), William Dean Howells (1837), Kenneth Copeland (1936), Sidney Howard (1891), and Joanna Russ (1937).

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