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Richard Price

1949 - Today

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Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Price has received more than 378,518 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Price is the 6,373rd most popular writer (down from 5,634th in 2019), the 11,666th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,048th in 2019) and the 856th most popular American Writer.

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  • 380k

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  • 49.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Price ranks 6,373 out of 7,302. Before him are Michael Rosen, Henry Green, Laurent Binet, S. E. Hinton, Joel Osteen, and Werewere Liking. After him are Jodi Picoult, Ludwig Bemelmans, Christopher Fry, Thomas Lodge, Terence MacSwiney, and Sylvia Browne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Richard Price ranks 682. Before him are Bert Vogelstein, Anuradha Koirala, Eddie Hart, Mike Moore, Nancy Kyes, and Zyta Gilowska. After him are Abhay Ashtekar, Raymond Martin, Jürgen Colombo, Rick Rosenthal, Alex Miller, and Arturo Vázquez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Price ranks 11,666 out of 20,380. Before him are Aisha Hinds (1975), Tommy Roe (1942), Nancy Kyes (1949), Ellie Greenwich (1940), Martin Milner (1931), and Liza Koshy (1996). After him are Artimus Pyle (1948), Louise Fazenda (1895), Hiram Fong (1906), James Moody (1925), Sammy Lee (1920), and Marvin Stalder (1905).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Price ranks 856. Before him are John Scalzi (1969), Tom Wilson (1931), Edward Everett Hale (1822), John P. Marquand (1893), S. E. Hinton (1948), and Joel Osteen (1963). After him are Jodi Picoult (1966), Sylvia Browne (1936), Anderson Cooper (1967), George S. Kaufman (1889), Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), and Linda Woolverton (1952).

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