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Carlos Castaneda

1925 - 1998

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Carlos César Salvador Arana (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998), better known as Carlos Castaneda, was an American anthropologist and writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the training he described is now generally considered to be fictional. The first three books—The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality, and Journey to Ixtlan—were written while he was an anthropology student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlos Castaneda is the 370th most popular writer (down from 303rd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Peru (down from 6th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Peruvian Writer.

Carlos Castaneda is most famous for his book series, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

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Among writers, Carlos Castaneda ranks 370 out of 7,302. Before him are Théophile Gautier, Henry Miller, Heinrich von Kleist, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coen brothers, and Ivar Aasen. After him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mikhail Sholokhov, Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.

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Among people born in 1925, Carlos Castaneda ranks 28. Before him are Bill Haley, Lee Van Cleef, Audie Murphy, Simon van der Meer, Jack Lemmon, and Robert F. Kennedy. After him are Frantz Fanon, Rock Hudson, Gerald Durrell, Douglas Engelbart, Ananda Mahidol, and Michel Piccoli. Among people deceased in 1998, Carlos Castaneda ranks 12. Before him are Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, and Vladimir Prelog. After him are Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Florence Griffith Joyner, Derek Barton, and Niklas Luhmann.

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Among people born in Peru, Carlos Castaneda ranks 7 out of 287. Before him are Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), Atahualpa (1502), Lina Medina (1933), Isabel Allende (1942), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920), and Alberto Fujimori (1938). After him are Túpac Amaru (1545), Pachacuti (1380), Manco Cápac (1250), Rose of Lima (1586), Túpac Amaru II (1738), and Manco Inca Yupanqui (1512).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Carlos Castaneda ranks 3. Before him are Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), and Isabel Allende (1942). After him are Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), José María Arguedas (1911), Ciro Alegría (1909), Ricardo Palma (1833), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), and Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854).

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