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Richard Brautigan

1935 - 1984

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Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Brautigan has received more than 933,282 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Richard Brautigan is the 2,018th most popular writer (down from 1,652nd in 2019), the 2,547th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,163rd in 2019) and the 222nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 930k

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  • 56.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Brautigan ranks 2,018 out of 7,302. Before him are Rudolf Rocker, Telesilla, Julien Gracq, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Matthieu Ricard, and Sophron. After him are Tanya Savicheva, Mariano José de Larra, Bella Akhmadulina, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Julian Tuwim, and Jean Starobinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Richard Brautigan ranks 126. Before him are Jerry Orbach, Jerry Fodor, Chaim Topol, Tsutomu Hata, Mohamed Choukri, and Sergei Khrushchev. After him are Franco Citti, Lyudmila Chernykh, Djamila Bouhired, Dominique Venner, Kurt Westergaard, and Samak Sundaravej. Among people deceased in 1984, Richard Brautigan ranks 74. Before him are Jiro Miyake, George Gallup, Trygve Bratteli, Louis Réard, Faina Ranevskaya, and Kim Sung-gan. After him are Lionel Robbins, El Santo, Walter Tevis, Fikret Amirov, Josyf Slipyj, and Vladimir Chelomey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Brautigan ranks 2,547 out of 20,380. Before him are John C. Calhoun (1782), Barbara Bain (1931), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Sean Young (1959), and Delphine LaLaurie (1787). After him are James L. Brooks (1940), Gloria Grahame (1923), Edward Herrmann (1943), Stephen Sondheim (1930), James Remar (1953), and Robert Downey Sr. (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Brautigan ranks 222. Before him are Robert James Waller (1939), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Jane Jacobs (1916), Eugene Nida (1914), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), and Cornell Woolrich (1903). After him are Bob Woodward (1943), Tom Wolfe (1930), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), John Grinder (1940), Walter Tevis (1928), and James M. Cain (1892).

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