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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), and The October Country (1955). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Bradbury has received more than 6,679,161 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Ray Bradbury is the 206th most popular writer (up from 221st in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from United States (up from 186th in 2019) and the 16th 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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  • 6.7M

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  • 72.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 91

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ray Bradbury ranks 206 out of 7,302. Before him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, and Tristan Tzara. After him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, Anacreon, Johanna Spyri, and Sigrid Undset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ray Bradbury ranks 8. Before him are Federico Fellini, Isaac Asimov, Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Rosalind Franklin, and Toshiro Mifune. After him are Farouk of Egypt, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Paul Celan, Mario Puzo, Owen Chamberlain, and Melina Mercouri. 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, Yitzhak Shamir, Griselda Blanco, Ahmed Ben Bella, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Tony Scott, and Michael Clarke Duncan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Bradbury ranks 177 out of 20,380. Before him are Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Sitting Bull (1831), Tom Cruise (1962), John Travolta (1954), Linus Pauling (1901), and James Watson (1928). After him are Clark Gable (1901), Robert K. Merton (1910), Geronimo (1829), Gene Cernan (1934), Tim Cook (1960), and Edwin McMillan (1907).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ray Bradbury ranks 16. Before him are Stephen King (1947), Dr. Seuss (1904), William Faulkner (1897), J. D. Salinger (1919), John Steinbeck (1902), and Dale Carnegie (1888). After him are Herman Melville (1819), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Arthur Miller (1915), Walt Whitman (1819), Philip K. Dick (1928), and Emily Dickinson (1830).

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