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William Tenn

1920 - 2010

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William Tenn was the pseudonym of Philip Klass (May 9, 1920 – February 7, 2010), a British-born American science fiction author, notable for many stories with satirical elements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Tenn has received more than 89,791 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Tenn is the 4,884th most popular writer (down from 4,583rd in 2019), the 3,751st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,573rd in 2019) and the 426th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Tenn ranks 4,884 out of 5,755. Before him are John Braine, Tomás António Gonzaga, Vladimir Dudintsev, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, John Hersey, and José Santos Chocano. After him are Anna Enquist, Lin Shu, Federico Moccia, Tony Cliff, Kitamura Tokoku, and Aleksey Pleshcheyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, William Tenn ranks 308. Before him are Marie Ljalková, Katsuko Saruhashi, Jean Marcel Honoré, Enzo Biagi, Zeno Colò, and Chushiro Hayashi. After him are Claude Cheysson, Stan Musial, Olle Åhlund, Ella Raines, Gino Cappello, and Neville Brand. Among people deceased in 2010, William Tenn ranks 285. Before him are Hal Connolly, Chushiro Hayashi, Edoardo Sanguineti, Vladimir Maslachenko, Ángel Cabrera, and Ilene Woods. After him are Nujabes, Jorge González, Guy Lapébie, Emilio Álvarez, Gregory Isaacs, and Kathryn Grayson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Tenn ranks 3,751 out of 7,765. Before him are William McGregor (1846), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Michael Rennie (1909), Piers Sellers (1955), Amy Macdonald (1987), and William Powell Frith (1819). After him are William Robertson (1721), John Powell (1963), William Rutter Dawes (1799), Paul Anderson (1978), John Paul Young (1950), and Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Tenn ranks 426. Before him are Peter Ackroyd (1949), Margery Kempe (1373), Roger Hargreaves (1935), Kate Atkinson (1951), Michael Grant (1914), and John Braine (1922). After him are Edward Rutherfurd (1948), Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), Steven Moffat (1961), George Holyoake (1817), Clara Reeve (1729), and Charles Montagu Doughty (1843).

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