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Clifford D. Simak

1904 - 1988

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Clifford Donald Simak (; August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clifford D. Simak is the 1,063rd most popular writer (down from 919th in 2019), the 1,519th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Writer.

Clifford D. Simak is most famous for his science fiction novels, which often explore the idea of intelligent life on other planets.

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Among writers, Clifford D. Simak ranks 1,063 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Litvinenko, Sulpicius Severus, Adalbert Stifter, Radoje Domanović, Robert Graves, and Brian O'Nolan. After him are Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, P. L. Travers, William Gibson, Nikolay Nekrasov, W. G. Sebald, and Paul Bourget.

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Among people born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak ranks 50. Before him are John Gielgud, George Balanchine, Charles J. Pedersen, Karl Rahner, Tadao Takayama, and Héctor Castro. After him are Otto Robert Frisch, František Plánička, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Serge Lifar, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Luigi Dallapiccola. Among people deceased in 1988, Clifford D. Simak ranks 31. Before him are Kim Philby, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Virginia Satir, Raymond Carver, Richard S. Castellano, and Felix Wankel. After him are Luis Barragán, Franz Josef Strauss, Christina Onassis, Farida of Egypt, Henryk Szeryng, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Among people born in United States, Clifford D. Simak ranks 1,519 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Bruckheimer (1943), Sarah Knauss (1880), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), Francis Gary Powers (1929), Arthur Ashe (1943), and James Van Allen (1914). After him are John Gotti (1940), William Gibson (1948), Pitbull (1981), Al Jarreau (1940), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and Adrien Brody (1973).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Clifford D. Simak ranks 118. Before him are John Grisham (1955), Nellie Bly (1864), Ed Bradley (1941), Dalton Trumbo (1905), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), and Mary Higgins Clark (1927). After him are William Gibson (1948), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Edith Wharton (1862), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Harriet Jacobs (1813), and Tess Gerritsen (1953).

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