1897 - 1975
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thornton Wilder has received more than 983,258 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Thornton Wilder is the 1,380th most popular writer (down from 1,317th in 2019), the 1,757th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,548th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Thornton Wilder ranks 1,380 out of 5,755. Before him are Hovhannes Tumanyan, Salawat Yulayev, Kenji Miyazawa, Tomi Ungerer, Henry de Montherlant, and Wilhelm Müller. After him are John Dryden, Eva Schloss, Don Juan Manuel, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Rafael Alberti, and Ihara Saikaku.
1869 - 1923
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,374
1754 - 1800
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,375
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,376
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,377
1895 - 1972
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,378
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,379
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,380
1631 - 1700
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,381
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,382
1282 - 1348
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,383
1812 - 1885
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,384
1902 - 1999
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,385
1642 - 1693
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,386
Among people born in 1897, Thornton Wilder ranks 71. Before him are Karl Löwith, Elijah Muhammad, Sidney Bechet, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Judith Anderson, and Jean Epstein. After him are Philippe Soupault, Sepp Herberger, Hans Speidel, Mukhtar Auezov, Ana Aslan, and Johann Rattenhuber. Among people deceased in 1975, Thornton Wilder ranks 52. Before him are George Stevens, P. G. Wodehouse, Elijah Muhammad, Leroy Anderson, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Edward Tatum. After him are Ivan Maisky, Hans Bellmer, Marguerite Perey, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Eugen Fink, and Walker Evans.
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 65
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 66
1897 - 1959
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 67
1897 - 1941
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 68
1897 - 1992
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 69
1897 - 1953
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 70
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 71
1897 - 1990
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 72
1897 - 1977
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 73
1897 - 1984
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 74
1897 - 1961
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 75
1897 - 1988
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 76
1897 - 1957
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 77
1904 - 1975
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 46
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 47
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 48
1908 - 1975
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 49
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 50
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 51
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 52
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 53
1902 - 1975
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 54
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 55
1889 - 1975
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 56
1905 - 1975
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 57
1903 - 1975
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 58
Among people born in United States, Thornton Wilder ranks 1,757 out of 18,182. Before him are W. I. Thomas (1863), Robert Loggia (1930), Isamu Noguchi (1904), LeBron James (1984), Laura Dern (1967), and John Carradine (1906). After him are John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Richard Avedon (1923), Cus D'Amato (1908), Lloyd Shapley (1923), Anna Nicole Smith (1967), and Robert Reich (1946).
1863 - 1947
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,751
1930 - 2015
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,752
1904 - 1988
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,753
1984 - Present
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 1,754
1967 - Present
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,755
1906 - 1988
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,756
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,757
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,758
1923 - 2004
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,759
1908 - 1985
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,760
1923 - 2016
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,761
1967 - 2007
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,762
1946 - Present
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,763
Among writers born in United States, Thornton Wilder ranks 167. Before him are Samuel R. Delany (1942), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Edward Albee (1928), Norman Mailer (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), and James Patterson (1947). After him are Martin Gardner (1914), Ida Tarbell (1857), Ira Levin (1929), Dorothy Parker (1893), Tom Wolfe (1930), and Rick Riordan (1964).
1942 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 161
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 162
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 163
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 164
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 165
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 166
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 167
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 168
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 169
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 170
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 171
1930 - 2018
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 172
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 173