WRITER

Richard Ford

1944 - Today

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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. Ford's first collection of short stories, Rock Springs, was published in 1987. In the United States, Ford received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Ford has received more than 753,998 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Richard Ford is the 1,758th most popular writer (up from 2,225th in 2019), the 2,202nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,875th in 2019) and the 193rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A Piece of My Heart
1988
The sportswriter
Fiction, Sportswriters, Divorced men
1985
Women with Men
Man-woman relationships, Fiction
1997
Rock Springs
1988
A Multitude of Sins
Man-woman relationships, Intimacy (Psychology), American Psychological fiction
2001
The Lay of the Land
2006

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Ford ranks 1,758 out of 7,302. Before him are Li Yu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Alexandre Benois, Princess Michael of Kent, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Notker the Stammerer. After him are Anne Perry, Suzanne Collins, Tavo Burat, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Raymond E. Feist, and Adam Zagajewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Richard Ford ranks 166. Before him are Frances de la Tour, Kemal Sunal, Yury Romanenko, Albert Hammond, Bernard Tschumi, and Marc Ouellet. After him are Brenda Lee, Dennis Wilson, Stockard Channing, Johnny Winter, Peter Mayhew, and Alan Stivell.

Others Born in 1944

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Ford ranks 2,202 out of 20,380. Before him are Patricia Clarkson (1959), Michael Emerson (1954), Don S. Davis (1942), Linda Blair (1959), Richard Ramirez (1960), and Linda Evans (1942). After him are Paul Marcinkus (1922), Billy Gibbons (1949), Suzanne Collins (1962), Kim Hunter (1922), Alice Ball (1892), and Raymond E. Feist (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Ford ranks 193. Before him are E. E. Cummings (1894), Ken Wilber (1949), William Carlos Williams (1883), Joan Didion (1934), Edmond Hamilton (1904), and Dorothy Parker (1893). After him are Suzanne Collins (1962), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Robert Silverberg (1935), Djuna Barnes (1892), and Joseph D. Pistone (1939).

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