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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 his sequences of novels, especially 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 474,077 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Philip José Farmer is the 1,458th most popular writer (up from 1,477th in 2019), the 1,853rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,811th in 2019) and the 174th most popular American Writer.

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  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philip José Farmer ranks 1,458 out of 5,755. Before him are Fulcher of Chartres, J. G. Ballard, Vasil Bykaŭ, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Quintus Smyrnaeus, and Alexander Radishchev. After him are Ruy González de Clavijo, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Fritz Gerlich, Jean Chapelain, Joseph Mohr, and Peter Altenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Philip José Farmer ranks 73. Before him are Jin Youzhi, Yigal Allon, Jean-Marie Loret, Kakuei Tanaka, João Figueiredo, and Gabriel Axel. After him are Kenichi Fukui, Humaira Begum, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Takashi Kasahara, Spiro Agnew, and Choi Hong Hi. Among people deceased in 2009, Philip José Farmer ranks 58. Before him are Kim Peek, Clive Granger, Sverre Fehn, Marek Edelman, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, and J. G. Ballard. After him are Qian Xuesen, Rafael Caldera, Ingemar Johansson, Arne Næss, Takashi Takabayashi, and Sydney Chaplin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip José Farmer ranks 1,853 out of 18,182. Before him are Leo McCarey (1898), Albert King (1923), Scott McKenzie (1939), Eartha Kitt (1927), Bill Withers (1938), and Edward James Olmos (1947). After him are Kalākaua (1836), Ry Cooder (1947), Solomon Burke (1936), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), Vic Morrow (1929), and Richard Smalley (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Philip José Farmer ranks 174. Before him are Martin Gardner (1914), Ida Tarbell (1857), Ira Levin (1929), Dorothy Parker (1893), Tom Wolfe (1930), and Rick Riordan (1964). After him are Jack Vance (1916), William Carlos Williams (1883), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Gore Vidal (1925), and David Woodard (1964).

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