WRITER

Philip José Farmer

1918 - 2009

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Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for two sequences of novels, the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip José Farmer has received more than 506,721 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Philip José Farmer is the 1,606th most popular writer (down from 1,455th in 2019), the 1,983rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,852nd in 2019) and the 175th most popular American Writer.

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Hadon of Ancient Opa
1974
Lord of the trees
1982
Time's Last Gift
Fiction in English
1972
The other log of Phileas Fogg
Fiction in English
1973
Traitor to the Living
1975
Strange Relations
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philip José Farmer ranks 1,606 out of 7,302. Before him are David Albahari, Charles Paul de Kock, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Robert Desnos, and Dick Bruna. After him are Petar Kočić, Eileen Chang, Peter Altenberg, Pacuvius, Uri Avnery, and Mehmet Akif Ersoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Philip José Farmer ranks 81. Before him are B. K. S. Iyengar, Fernando Peyroteo, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Jin Youzhi, and Henry Calvin. After him are Theodore Sturgeon, Choi Hong Hi, Abba Kovner, Jean-Marie Loret, Thomas Gordon, and Cicely Saunders. Among people deceased in 2009, Philip José Farmer ranks 71. Before him are Shih Kien, Edward T. Hall, Gaafar Nimeiry, Ricardo Montalbán, Arne Næss, and Sydney Chaplin. After him are Oleg Yankovsky, Kim Peek, Brittany Murphy, Luís Cabral, Meir Amit, and Robert Enke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip José Farmer ranks 1,983 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Reiner (1922), Elias Howe (1819), Janet Gaynor (1906), Judd Hirsch (1935), Henry Calvin (1918), and John Carradine (1906). After him are Joe Lynn Turner (1951), Bill Paxton (1955), Amber Heard (1986), Gene Vincent (1935), Billy Preston (1946), and Andie MacDowell (1958).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Philip José Farmer ranks 175. Before him are Jeffery Deaver (1950), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Dean Koontz (1945), Langston Hughes (1902), Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), and Natalie Clifford Barney (1876). After him are Alice Walker (1944), Gore Vidal (1925), Ira Levin (1929), Martin Gardner (1914), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), and Upton Sinclair (1878).

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