WRITER

Winston Groom

1943 - 2020

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Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) was an American author. He is best known for his best-selling novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a 1990s cultural phenomenon after being adapted as the film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winston Groom has received more than 1,149,735 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Winston Groom is the 2,460th most popular writer (down from 2,398th in 2019), the 3,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,099th in 2019) and the 267th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Winston Groom ranks 2,460 out of 7,302. Before him are Predrag Matvejević, Léon Werth, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Parthenius of Nicaea, Guan Hanqing, and Gottschalk of Orbais. After him are William Beckford, Alois Musil, María Kodama, Annie Proulx, Rolf Hochhuth, and Ariwara no Narihira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Winston Groom ranks 217. Before him are Muhammad al-Sadr, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Kazimira Prunskienė, Albert Pintat, Mark Granovetter, and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. After him are Christopher Priest, Georgi Asparuhov, Jil Sander, Lauren Hutton, Terry Venables, and Shlomo Ben-Ami. Among people deceased in 2020, Winston Groom ranks 168. Before him are Stuart Whitman, Olof Thunberg, Robert Conrad, Christophe, Jackie Stallone, and Jörn Donner. After him are Rolf Hochhuth, Armando Manzanero, Nur Hassan Hussein, Zizi Jeanmaire, Bill Gates Sr., and Bernard Stiegler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Winston Groom ranks 3,100 out of 20,380. Before him are Sam Giancana (1908), Mitch Pileggi (1952), Stephen Stills (1945), Christina Ricci (1980), Rob Schneider (1963), and Jim Abrahams (1944). After him are James S. Sherman (1855), George Koval (1913), Daniel Inouye (1924), Daniel Boone (1734), Esther Lederberg (1922), and Frances Sternhagen (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Winston Groom ranks 267. Before him are Neil Postman (1931), Charles Berlitz (1913), Kate Millett (1934), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), and Mary Mapes Dodge (1831). After him are Annie Proulx (1935), Richard Wright (1908), Michael Bishop (1945), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Ron Kovic (1946), and Donald E. Westlake (1933).

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