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Walter M. Miller Jr.

1923 - 1996

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Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 – January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer. His fix-up novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), the only novel published in his lifetime, won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter M. Miller Jr. has received more than 224,094 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Walter M. Miller Jr. is the 4,802nd most popular writer (down from 4,390th in 2019), the 7,010th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,366th in 2019) and the 566th most popular American Writer.

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  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 4,802 out of 5,755. Before him are Heðin Brú, Anna Brigadere, Miguel Otero Silva, Tom Robbins, Thea Beckman, and Raghunath Murmu. After him are William Harrison Ainsworth, Petr Bezruč, Jan de Hartog, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Paul van Ostaijen, and Jacob van Maerlant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 313. Before him are John Holt, Adãozinho, Halfdan T. Mahler, Jorge Romo, Oskar Fischer, and Thea Beckman. After him are Max Jakobson, Ken Kavanagh, Shlomo Hillel, Alina Janowska, Bob Barker, and Tom M. Apostol. Among people deceased in 1996, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 222. Before him are José dos Santos Lopes, Bernhard Klodt, Kusuo Kitamura, McLean Stevenson, Gino Bramieri, and William Bonin. After him are Ludovico Avio, Wálter Guevara, Osvaldo Velloso de Barros, Gilles Grangier, Olle Åhlund, and Laura La Plante.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 7,010 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard Portnow (1947), Joseph Bologna (1934), Jason Kidd (1973), Walter Block (1941), Robert T. Bakker (1945), and Ken Olsen (1926). After him are William T. Anderson (1839), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Maury Chaykin (1949), Skeeter Davis (1931), Skeet Ulrich (1970), and Charles Reidpath (1889).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 566. Before him are Kathy Acker (1947), David E. Kelley (1956), John Varley (1947), Robert Greene (1959), Tobias Wolff (1945), and Tom Robbins (1932). After him are Archibald MacLeish (1892), Jack Finney (1911), Ernest Lehman (1915), Robert Lowell (1917), Ernie Pyle (1900), and Candace Bushnell (1958).

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