WRITER

R. L. Stine

1943 - Today

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Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943), known by his pen name R.L. Stine, is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history. The series spawned a media franchise including two television series, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. L. Stine has received more than 6,394,683 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). R. L. Stine is the 1,691st most popular writer (down from 1,270th in 2019), the 2,104th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,593rd in 2019) and the 183rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dangerous Girls
Fiction, Twins, Vampires
Destiny Weller and her twin sister, Livvy, return from their summer vacation with an overpowering thirst –– an inhuman desire to drink blood. Have they turned into vampires? How will they keep their horrifying secret from their family and friends? And can they find a way to become human again... before it's too late?
2003
Beware!
Horror tales, American
2002
Goosebumps The Girl Who Cried Monster
Libraries, Monsters, Fiction
1995
Fear Street - Superchillers
1993
Welcome to Dead House
Horror tales, Juvenile fiction, Haunted houses
1992
The girlfriend
Fiction, Young adult fiction, Dating (Social customs)
1991

Among WRITERS

Among writers, R. L. Stine ranks 1,691 out of 7,302. Before him are Eliza Orzeszkowa, James Clavell, Anna Leonowens, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Branwell Brontë, and Hannah Szenes. After him are Arseny Tarkovsky, Marcel Schwob, Margherita Sarfatti, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Alexander Belyaev, and Ole Nydahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, R. L. Stine ranks 142. Before him are Richard Sennett, Masafumi Hara, Jack Bruce, Lin Shaye, Peter Sauber, and Robert Lefkowitz. After him are Ove Kindvall, Kurtwood Smith, Jan de Bont, Arturo Merzario, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, and Beba Lončar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, R. L. Stine ranks 2,104 out of 20,380. Before him are Jesse Douglas (1897), George Roy Hill (1921), Ornette Coleman (1930), Steve Perry (1949), Bob Kahn (1938), and Leroy Anderson (1908). After him are Lou Gehrig (1903), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), Robert Cialdini (1945), Josh Brolin (1968), and Cus D'Amato (1908).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, R. L. Stine ranks 183. Before him are Gore Vidal (1925), Ira Levin (1929), Martin Gardner (1914), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Upton Sinclair (1878), and Fredric Jameson (1934). After him are Bernard Malamud (1914), Lewis Mumford (1895), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), E. E. Cummings (1894), Ken Wilber (1949), and William Carlos Williams (1883).

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