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Zane Grey

1872 - 1939

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Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zane Grey has received more than 1,408,414 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Zane Grey is the 4,639th most popular writer (down from 4,084th in 2019), the 6,260th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,558th in 2019) and the 504th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zane Grey ranks 4,639 out of 7,302. Before him are Nancy Huston, W. S. Gilbert, Molla Vali Vidadi, Kostas Karyotakis, Shuntarō Tanikawa, and Lin Shu. After him are Vitaly Bianki, Cerverí de Girona, Erik Hornung, Virginie Ancelot, Levon Shant, and Ole Lund Kirkegaard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Zane Grey ranks 144. Before him are Mehdi Frashëri, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Charles Gmelin, Jan Szczepanik, Oswaldo Cruz, and John McCrae. After him are Henri Masson, Wilfred Baddeley, Richard Röstel, Henri Hubert, Carl Bonde, and Anna von Mildenburg. Among people deceased in 1939, Zane Grey ranks 120. Before him are Charles P. Dixon, Władysław Raginis, Alberto Palacio, Alfredo Panzini, Kullervo Manner, and Dmitry Grave. After him are Oton Iveković, Gwen John, Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, Fausto dos Santos, Har Dayal, and Georges Pitoëff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Zane Grey ranks 6,260 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Graham (1942), Vinnie Paul (1964), Fred Kelly (1891), Olive Borden (1906), Ashrita Furman (1954), and John McIntire (1907). After him are Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930), Constance Bennett (1904), Wayne Rogers (1933), Peter Norton (1943), Robert John Burke (1960), and Gregg Toland (1904).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Zane Grey ranks 504. Before him are Art Buchwald (1925), John Piper (1946), Gordon Willis (1931), Anita Loos (1889), Robert Lowell (1917), and James Agee (1909). After him are Nicholas Meyer (1945), Eudora Welty (1909), Tobias Wolff (1945), Louis Bromfield (1896), Mary McCarthy (1912), and Jonathan Carroll (1949).

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