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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 347,490 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Richard Price is the 5,655th most popular writer (down from 5,115th in 2019), the 10,071st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,412th in 2019) and the 763rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Price ranks 5,655 out of 5,755. Before him are Veronica Roth, Anna J. Cooper, Terry Southern, Rick Yancey, Kento Masuda, and Ann Bannon. After him are China Miéville, George Alec Effinger, Tim O'Brien, George MacDonald Fraser, Stig Claesson, and Frances Power Cobbe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Richard Price ranks 569. Before him are Ayşe Erzan, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, Marion Hänsel, Suthep Thaugsuban, Mike Moore, and Queen Aishwarya of Nepal. After him are Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Thomas Bopp, Alex Miller, Jeannie Berlin, Nancy Kyes, and Sunil Gavaskar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Price ranks 10,071 out of 18,182. Before him are Rena Sofer (1968), Carrie Preston (1967), Gwynne Shotwell (1963), Constance Titus (1873), Isabel Jewell (1907), and B-Real (1970). After him are Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Ben Cardin (1943), Michael Clarke (1946), Malvina Reynolds (1900), Angela Kinsey (1971), and Camila Mendes (1994).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Price ranks 763. Before him are Lew Rockwell (1944), Veronica Roth (1988), Anna J. Cooper (1858), Terry Southern (1924), Rick Yancey (1962), and Ann Bannon (1932). After him are George Alec Effinger (1947), Tim O'Brien (1946), Arthur Laurents (1917), Greg Daniels (1963), George B. Seitz (1888), and Theodore Roethke (1908).

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