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Robert W. Chambers

1865 - 1933

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Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert W. Chambers has received more than 540,756 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert W. Chambers is the 3,570th most popular writer, the 4,589th most popular biography from United States and the 383rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 540k

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  • 51.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert W. Chambers ranks 3,570 out of 7,302Before him are George Gissing, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ernst Weiss, Robert Garnier, Liza Marklund, and Safvet-beg Bašagić. After him are Sergio Ramírez, Zsigmond Móricz, Graham Hancock, Krišjānis Barons, Richard Curtis, and Emma Lazarus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Robert W. Chambers ranks 109Before him are Cândido Rondon, Lubor Niederle, Edgar Aabye, Albéric Magnard, Wilson Bentley, and Jehanne D'Alcy. After him are Mahmud Tarzi, Albert Aurier, Karl Blossfeldt, Uchida Kōsai, Pierre Weiss, and Jacques Mieses. Among people deceased in 1933, Robert W. Chambers ranks 82Before him are Boris Rosing, Yisrael Meir Kagan, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Sara Teasdale, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, and Anastasia Golovina. After him are Arnold Mendelssohn, Mahmud Tarzi, Gyula Krúdy, Georges Leygues, Friedrich von Ingenohl, and Sophia Parnok.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert W. Chambers ranks 4,589 out of 20,380Before him are Theodore Gill (1837), Buster Douglas (1960), Michael V. Gazzo (1923), Aidan Quinn (1959), Tom Mix (1880), and Carmine Appice (1946). After him are Timothy Olyphant (1968), Madeline Kahn (1942), Clifton James (1920), Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Murray Hamilton (1923), and Grace Coolidge (1879).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert W. Chambers ranks 383Before him are Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Donald Barthelme (1931), Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), Gene Wolfe (1931), and Joss Whedon (1964). After him are Emma Lazarus (1849), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Charles Fort (1874), Lillian Hellman (1905), John Ashbery (1927), and Richard Yates (1926).