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V. C. Andrews

1923 - 1986

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Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was best known for her 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, which inspired two movie adaptations and four sequels. While her novels are not classified by her publisher as Young Adult, their young protagonists have made them popular among teenagers for decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of V. C. Andrews has received more than 3,204,843 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). V. C. Andrews is the 3,780th most popular writer (down from 2,760th in 2019), the 5,054th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,527th in 2019) and the 424th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.2M

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  • 49.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, V. C. Andrews ranks 3,780 out of 5,755Before her are Gregory David Roberts, Veniamin Kaverin, Anne-Cath. Vestly, C. J. Cherryh, Leslie Stephen, and Renia Spiegel. After her are Paul Fort, Nodira, Yu Hua, Gudrun Pausewang, Lydia Becker, and Maurice Schumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, V. C. Andrews ranks 227Before her are Rentarō Mikuni, Ioannis Grivas, Gordon R. Dickson, Octavio Lepage, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Isao Kimura. After her are Charlie Mariano, Juan Burgueño, Geoff Duke, Galyani Vadhana, Naziha al-Dulaimi, and Betsy Blair. Among people deceased in 1986, V. C. Andrews ranks 145Before her are Lars-Erik Larsson, Gaston Defferre, Beryl Markham, Ernst Lehner, Juan Carlos Corazzo, and Daniel Balavoine. After her are Ruth Teitelbaum, Annemarie Selinko, Agustín Sauto Arana, Murray Hamilton, Ernst Haas, and Étienne Mattler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, V. C. Andrews ranks 5,054 out of 18,182Before her are Mark St. John (1956), Robert Berdella (1949), Michael Harner (1929), Marsha Mason (1942), Richard Petty (1937), and C. J. Cherryh (1942). After her are Gina Carano (1982), Fletcher Henderson (1897), Zooey Deschanel (1980), Jon Hamm (1971), Julia Grant (1826), and Dorothy Gish (1898).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, V. C. Andrews ranks 424Before her are Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), David Baldacci (1960), Sandra Brown (1948), David Brin (1950), Ron Kovic (1946), and C. J. Cherryh (1942). After her are James Thurber (1894), Saul Alinsky (1909), Maxwell Anderson (1888), Bret Harte (1836), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), and James Redfield (1950).