WRITER

R. J. Palacio

1963 - Today

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Raquel Jaramillo Palacio (born July 13, 1963) is an American author and graphic designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. J. Palacio has received more than 462,106 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). R. J. Palacio is the 4,764th most popular writer (down from 4,318th in 2019), the 6,511th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,985th in 2019) and the 524th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Wonder
2012
365 Days of Wonder
Proverbs, Quotations, Juvenile literature
"A book of precepts, with one saying for each day, from Auggie's teacher Mr. Brown"--
2008
We're All Wonders
Emotions, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, Children's fiction
Augie enjoys the company of his dog, Daisy, and using his imagination, but painfully endures the taunts of his peers because of his facial deformity.
2017
Wonder
health, daily living, mainstreaming
Wonder is a children's novel written by R. J. Palacio,[2] published on 14 February 2012. R. J. Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation. Natalie Merchant's song of the same name made her realize that the incident could illustrate a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant's lyrics and she began writing. She named the book directly after the song and used the song's chorus as the prologue of the first chapter.
2001
Auggie & Me
Human Abnormalities, Middle schools, Friendship
Trade edition
2014
White bird
Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Comic books, strips, etc.
2019

Page views of R. J. Palacios by language

Over the past year R. J. Palacio has had the most page views in the with 77,540 views, followed by Spanish (19,319), and German (17,953). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (28.44%), Polish (23.42%), and Armenian (15.33%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, R. J. Palacio ranks 4,764 out of 7,302. Before her are Milo Yiannopoulos, Hans Werner Richter, Zeruya Shalev, Sue Grafton, Mikhail Kheraskov, and Graciliano Ramos. After her are Dun Karm Psaila, Peter Scholl-Latour, Abdulla Shaig, Richard Wagner, Susan Brownmiller, and Zahrad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, R. J. Palacio ranks 250. Before her are Ivan Capelli, Clint Mansell, E. L. James, Henri Leconte, Raimond Aumann, and Slobodan Živojinović. After her are Yann Martel, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jean-Marc Vallée, Angus Macfadyen, Andrei Tchmil, and Yoko Kanno.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, R. J. Palacio ranks 6,511 out of 20,380. Before her are Bobby Cannavale (1970), Harry Blanchard (1929), Cornel West (1953), Brian Hyland (1943), Sue Grafton (1940), and Archie Mayo (1891). After her are Kurt Angle (1968), Medgar Evers (1925), Bob Backlund (1949), Betty Gilpin (1986), Irwin Allen (1916), and John Slattery (1962).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, R. J. Palacio ranks 524. Before her are Damon Knight (1922), Aaron Sorkin (1961), Jacqueline Susann (1918), James Salter (1925), Robert Ettinger (1918), and Sue Grafton (1940). After her are Susan Brownmiller (1935), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), John D. MacDonald (1916), James Lee Burke (1936), Irving Wallace (1916), and David E. Kelley (1956).

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