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William H. Gass

1924 - 2017

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William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William H. Gass has received more than 338,226 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William H. Gass is the 5,880th most popular writer (down from 5,204th in 2019), the 11,412th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,971st in 2019) and the 851st most popular American Writer.

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  • 340k

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  • 39.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William H. Gass ranks 5,880 out of 5,755. Before him are Stephen Chbosky, Catherine Cookson, Rose Tremain, James Gleick, Forrest J Ackerman, and Tom Egeland. After him are Kim Thúy, Phyllis A. Whitney, Wilma Mankiller, George S. Kaufman, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, William H. Gass ranks 427. Before him are Knut Steen, Jo Benkow, Bob Kurland, Georges Dransart, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, and Russell Johnson. After him are Frank Havens, Harry Schwarz, Margaret Whiting, Ken Armstrong, Joseph Campanella, and Charlie Callas. Among people deceased in 2017, William H. Gass ranks 528. Before him are Monty Hall, Ricardo Vidal, Geri Allen, Rhodri Morgan, Tim Parnell, and Cheick Tioté. After him are Ernie Pieterse, Connie Hawkins, Peter Sallis, Harvey Atkin, Margit Schumann, and Udupi Ramachandra Rao.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William H. Gass ranks 11,412 out of 18,182. Before him are Eric Balfour (1977), Greg Valentine (1951), Ellen Ochoa (1958), Ashley Johnson (1983), Lou Adler (1933), and Walt Faulkner (1918). After him are Kiersten Warren (1965), Big Boss Man (1963), Russell Carpenter (1950), Frank Havens (1924), Tory Belleci (1970), and Elden Henson (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William H. Gass ranks 851. Before him are Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872), John Seigenthaler (1927), Dorothy Allison (1949), Stephen Chbosky (1970), James Gleick (1954), and Forrest J Ackerman (1916). After him are Wilma Mankiller (1945), George S. Kaufman (1889), Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806), Jonathan Rosenbaum (1943), August Wilson (1945), and Frances Harper (1825).

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