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William Blum

1933 - 2018

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William Henry Blum (; March 6, 1933 – December 9, 2018) was an American author and journalist and a critic of United States foreign policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Blum has received more than 296,705 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William Blum is the 5,652nd most popular writer (down from 5,339th in 2019), the 8,594th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,592nd in 2019) and the 663rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Blum ranks 5,652 out of 7,302. Before him are Kate Wilhelm, George William Russell, Herman Teirlinck, MacKenzie Scott, Hanif Kureishi, and Peter Wohlleben. After him are Stanisław Barańczak, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Semyon Nadson, Valentín Paz-Andrade, Eoin Colfer, and Yuri Samarin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, William Blum ranks 425. Before him are Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, Irina Beglyakova, Valéria Gyenge, Franco Marini, Françoise Héritier, and Jerry Falwell. After him are Dušanka Sifnios, Nikola Radović, Milly Scott, Ann Richards, Steve Shirley, and Jackie Blanchflower. Among people deceased in 2018, William Blum ranks 406. Before him are Ricky Jay, Cliff Bourland, Irina Beglyakova, David Goodall, Kate Wilhelm, and Alfredo del Águila. After him are Milunka Lazarević, Daniel Robin, Joseph Polchinski, Aleksei Paramonov, Mateja Matevski, and Gardner Dozois.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Blum ranks 8,594 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Arnold (1890), David Canary (1938), Joe Torre (1940), Evan Rachel Wood (1987), Helen Ferguson (1901), and Mark Valley (1964). After him are Alexander Berzin (1944), Jim Pollard (1922), Paul Bearer (1954), Cathy Moriarty (1960), William C. deMille (1878), and Spencer Dryden (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William Blum ranks 663. Before him are Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), Karin Slaughter (1971), Zitkala-Sa (1876), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Kate Wilhelm (1928), and MacKenzie Scott (1970). After him are Michael Shermer (1954), Kevin Kelly (1952), Edmund White (1940), Alison Lurie (1926), Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), and Gwendolyn Brooks (1917).

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