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Ray Bradbury

1920 - 2012

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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), "The Veldt", and The October Country (1955). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Bradbury has received more than 6,259,471 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Bradbury is the 221st most popular writer (down from 157th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from United States (down from 129th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Writer.

Ray Bradbury is most famous for writing Fahrenheit 451, which is a dystopian novel about a future society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

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  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ray Bradbury ranks 221 out of 5,755. Before him are Anna Komnene, Geoffrey Chaucer, Nizami Ganjavi, Terry Pratchett, Peter Handke, and Luís de Camões. After him are Luigi Pirandello, John Milton, Peter Drucker, Johanna Spyri, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ray Bradbury ranks 9. Before him are Isaac Asimov, Charles Bukowski, Yul Brynner, Frank Herbert, Toshiro Mifune, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are Farouk of Egypt, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Mario Puzo, Paul Celan, Charlie Parker, and Éric Rohmer. Among people deceased in 2012, Ray Bradbury ranks 5. Before him are Neil Armstrong, Oscar Niemeyer, Norodom Sihanouk, and Wisława Szymborska. After him are Whitney Houston, Ahmed Ben Bella, Eric Hobsbawm, Carroll Shelby, Michael Clarke Duncan, Theo Angelopoulos, and Jon Lord.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Bradbury ranks 186 out of 18,182. Before him are Pearl S. Buck (1892), Sigourney Weaver (1949), James Monroe (1758), Samuel Colt (1814), Richard Gere (1949), and Carl Sagan (1934). After him are Tom Selleck (1945), Talcott Parsons (1902), James Madison (1751), Scatman John (1942), Gary Cooper (1901), and John Rawls (1921).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ray Bradbury ranks 20. Before him are J. D. Salinger (1919), Dale Carnegie (1888), John Steinbeck (1902), Emily Dickinson (1830), Herman Melville (1819), and Pearl S. Buck (1892). After him are Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Philip K. Dick (1928), Coen brothers (null), Walt Whitman (1819), Henry Miller (1891), and Margaret Mitchell (1900).

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