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Susanna Kaysen

1948 - Today

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Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susanna Kaysen has received more than 933,882 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Susanna Kaysen is the 3,954th most popular writer (up from 4,940th in 2019), the 5,161st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,309th in 2019) and the 422nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Camera My Mother Gave Me
2001
Une vie volée
2000
Girl, Interrupted
1995
Asa, as I knew him
Fiction
Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the "happy, handsome man" who, in her words, "was born to stomp on my heart."Witty and sexy, funny and immediate, Asa, As I Knew Him is a a seductive dialogue between love and memory, obsession and illusion.From the Trade Paperback edition.
1987
Far Afield
1990
Girl, interrupted
Mental health, Psychiatric hospital patients, Biography
1993

Page views of Susanna Kaysens by language

Over the past year Susanna Kaysen has had the most page views in the with 106,855 views, followed by Spanish (13,750), and Italian (8,032). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Dutch (72.27%), French (62.01%), and Turkish (43.70%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Susanna Kaysen ranks 3,954 out of 7,302. Before her are Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Gloria Fuertes, Paruyr Sevak, Alejandro Casona, Zofia Nałkowska, and Philippa Gregory. After her are Bahram Beyzai, Pauline Kael, Nevil Shute, Mongo Beti, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, and Irawati Karve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Susanna Kaysen ranks 349. Before her are Margaret Weis, Dušan Kovačević, Jim Walton, Gary Thain, Humayun Ahmed, and Joaquín Almunia. After her are Jean-Pierre Monseré, Lojze Peterle, Nate Archibald, Benny Morris, Raúl Reyes, and T. C. Boyle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susanna Kaysen ranks 5,161 out of 20,380. Before her are Patricia McPherson (1954), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Buddy Bolden (1877), George Kojac (1910), Samantha Smith (1972), and James Pickens Jr. (1954). After her are Felicia Farr (1932), Pauline Kael (1919), Nas (1973), Robert Webber (1924), Charles Starkweather (1938), and Mary Daly (1928).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Susanna Kaysen ranks 422. Before her are Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Elmer Rice (1892), Elizabeth Strout (1956), James Thurber (1894), and John Norman (1931). After her are Pauline Kael (1919), Maxwell Anderson (1888), Ralph Ellison (1914), Tad Williams (1957), Melissa Mathison (1950), and Lloyd Alexander (1924).

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