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Stephen King

1947 - Today

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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy and mystery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen King has received more than 31,414,533 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Stephen King is the 107th most popular writer (down from 82nd in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from United States (down from 68th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Writer.

Stephen King is most famous for his horror novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 31M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 80.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 108

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stephen King ranks 107 out of 7,302. Before him are James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Paulo Coelho, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, and André Gide. After him are Maurice Maeterlinck, August Strindberg, Haruki Murakami, Apuleius, Jean de La Fontaine, and George Bernard Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Stephen King ranks 6. Before him are Hillary Clinton, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johan Cruyff, and Paulo Coelho. After him are David Bowie, Elton John, David Letterman, Brian Johnson, Dilma Rousseff, and Florentino Pérez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen King ranks 81 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Clinton (1946), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Woody Allen (1935), Al Capone (1899), Abraham Maslow (1908), and Robin Williams (1951). After him are Morgan Freeman (1937), Larry Ellison (1944), John D. Rockefeller (1839), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Caitlyn Jenner (1949), and Charles Manson (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Stephen King ranks 10. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Jack London (1876), and Toni Morrison (1931). After him are Dr. Seuss (1904), William Faulkner (1897), J. D. Salinger (1919), John Steinbeck (1902), Dale Carnegie (1888), and Ray Bradbury (1920).

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