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Algis Budrys

1931 - 2008

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Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome in collaboration with Jerome Bixby, John A. Sentry, William Scarff and Paul Janvier. In the 1990s he was the publisher and editor of the science fiction magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Algis Budrys is the 5,886th most popular writer (down from 5,459th in 2024), the 2,234th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,066th in 2019) and the 260th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Algis Budrys ranks 5,886 out of 7,302. Before him are Susanna Clarke, Ewa Lipska, Frederick Rolfe, Dragutin Tadijanović, Steve Sem-Sandberg, and Richard Hoggart. After him are Yakov Polonsky, Helen Hunt Jackson, Julie Garwood, Alfredo Bryce, Roshanara Begum, and Ingrid Jonker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Algis Budrys ranks 522. Before him are Gustav-Adolf Schur, Tomimaru Okuni, Flora Nwapa, Carlos Graça, Ray Bryant, and István Gulyás. After him are Tadeusz Rut, Thomas Shardelow, Janice Rule, Jaime Salazar, Jackie McLean, and Felix Sobolev. Among people deceased in 2008, Algis Budrys ranks 319. Before him are Jo Stafford, Ai Iijima, Edie Adams, Frank Piasecki, Monica Lovinescu, and Dino Dvornik. After him are Roberto Sosa, Gennadi Volnov, Manorama, Benoît Lamy, Estelle Reiner, and Harald Hein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Algis Budrys ranks 2,234 out of 3,761. Before him are Ellina Zvereva (1960), Yury Usachov (1957), Lyudmila Shishova (1940), Alexander Popov (1971), Boris Mayorov (1938), and Andrei Fayt (1903). After him are Yakov Polonsky (1819), Alexey Gribov (1902), Andrei Okounkov (1969), Aleksandr Klepikov (1950), Nikolai Aseev (1889), and Denis Urubko (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Algis Budrys ranks 260. Before him are Yuri Samarin (1819), Vasily Belov (1932), Majit Gafuri (1880), Semyon Nadson (1862), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), and Vladislav Krapivin (1938). After him are Yakov Polonsky (1819), Nikolai Aseev (1889), Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817), Fedor Samokhin (1918), Aleksandr Chakovsky (1913), and Vladimir Bogomolov (1924).

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