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Siri Hustvedt

1955 - Today

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Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), and Memories of the Future (2019). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siri Hustvedt has received more than 606,451 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Siri Hustvedt is the 2,155th most popular writer (up from 2,386th in 2019), the 2,695th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,088th in 2019) and the 234th most popular American Writer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.57

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  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Siri Hustvedt ranks 2,155 out of 7,302Before her are Goffredo Mameli, Paul Féval, père, Sabahattin Ali, Aleksander Chodźko, Musa Cälil, and Paul the Silentiary. After her are Charles de Brosses, Amrita Pritam, Eduard Uspensky, Paul Morand, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, and Ernst Robert Curtius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Siri Hustvedt ranks 112Before her are Thomas C. Südhof, Peter Gallagher, Miguel Ferrer, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Petrović, and Eric Schmidt. After her are Brigitte Lahaie, Mariya Takeuchi, Zbigniew Preisner, Gloria Guida, Mulatu Teshome, and John de Mol Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Siri Hustvedt ranks 2,695 out of 20,380Before her are Waylon Jennings (1937), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Anna May Wong (1905), Lizzie Borden (1860), Linda Kozlowski (1958), and Horace Wells (1815). After her are Kevin Federline (1978), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Peter Boyle (1935), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Jason Newsted (1963), and Sylvia Sidney (1910).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Siri Hustvedt ranks 234Before her are James M. Cain (1892), Terry Brooks (1944), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), John Kennedy Toole (1937), Ed McBain (1926), and Flannery O'Connor (1925). After her are Nelson Algren (1909), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Samuel R. Delany (1942), E. L. Doctorow (1931), and Alfred Bester (1913).