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Robin Hobb

1952 - Today

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Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952; née Lindholm), known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. As Hobb, she is best known for her fantasy novels set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which comprise the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, the Rain Wild Chronicles, and the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Lindholm's writing includes the urban fantasy novel Wizard of the Pigeons and science fiction short stories, among other works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robin Hobb has received more than 1,943,987 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Robin Hobb is the 1,292nd most popular writer (up from 1,333rd in 2019), the 1,621st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,567th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 28

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  • 6.38

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  • 2.43

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robin Hobb ranks 1,292 out of 5,755Before her are Victor Serge, Roland Topor, Shūsaku Endō, Juan Rulfo, Mavro Orbini, and Antoine-Henri Jomini. After her are Jan Kochanowski, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Francesco Maria Piave, and Vittorio Alfieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Robin Hobb ranks 63Before her are George Papandreou, Didier Pironi, Stephen Lang, Ari Vatanen, Reinhard Genzel, and Irina Bokova. After her are Osvaldo Ardiles, Joel Silver, Diana Gabaldon, Imran Khan, Ko Yong-hui, and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robin Hobb ranks 1,621 out of 18,182Before her are Larry Silverstein (1931), Don Ameche (1908), Jack Black (1969), Norman Reedus (1969), June Carter Cash (1929), and John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960). After her are Hiram Bingham III (1875), Walter Mondale (1928), George Stigler (1911), John G. Avildsen (1935), Leroy Anderson (1908), and Rami Malek (1981).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robin Hobb ranks 153Before her are Carson McCullers (1917), Poul Anderson (1926), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Valerie Solanas (1936), Anthony Bourdain (1956), and R. L. Stine (1943). After her are James Baldwin (1924), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), Robert Sheckley (1928), Don DeLillo (1936), Robert Bloch (1917), and Joyce Carol Oates (1938).

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