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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paula Fox has received more than 1,128,095 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Paula Fox is the 4,954th 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

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paula Fox ranks 4,954 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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