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Joseph Campbell

1904 - 1987

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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Campbell is the 919th most popular writer (down from 881st in 2019), the 1,296th most popular biography from United States (down from 973rd in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Writer.

Joseph Campbell is most famous for his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book, he discusses the archetypal hero's journey, which consists of three phases: separation, initiation, and return.

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Among writers, Joseph Campbell ranks 919 out of 7,302. Before him are Italo Svevo, Mercè Rodoreda, MacKenzie Scott, Ida Tarbell, Etty Hillesum, and Christopher Tolkien. After him are Rubén Darío, Artemidorus, John Jacob Astor IV, Kurt Eisner, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, and Emanuel Schikaneder.

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Among people born in 1904, Joseph Campbell ranks 43. Before him are Antonín Novotný, Lucile Randon, Gregory Bateson, Nikolai Ostrovsky, George F. Kennan, and Willem de Kooning. After him are John Gielgud, George Balanchine, Charles J. Pedersen, Karl Rahner, Tadao Takayama, and Héctor Castro. Among people deceased in 1987, Joseph Campbell ranks 31. Before him are John Huston, Lee Marvin, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Jean Anouilh, Nobusuke Kishi, and Andrés Segovia. After him are Luis Federico Leloir, Anthony de Mello, Didier Pironi, André Masson, Jacqueline du Pré, and Peter Tosh.

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Among people born in United States, Joseph Campbell ranks 1,296 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Goldsmith (1929), Mike Shinoda (1977), James M. Buchanan (1919), Howard Martin Temin (1934), William Fichtner (1956), and Joshua Lederberg (1925). After him are John Reed (1887), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Sam Anderson (1945), and David Gross (1941).

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Among writers born in United States, Joseph Campbell ranks 99. Before him are Sam Shepard (1943), Thomas Harris (1940), Robert E. Howard (1906), Neale Donald Walsch (1943), MacKenzie Scott (1970), and Ida Tarbell (1857). After him are John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Daniel Keyes (1927), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Virginia Satir (1916), Horatio Alger (1832), and John Updike (1932).

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