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Philip José Farmer

1918 - 2009

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Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for two sequences of novels, the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family books, which tie classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip José Farmer is the 1,828th most popular writer (down from 1,605th in 2019), the 2,684th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,983rd in 2019) and the 217th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Philip José Farmer ranks 1,828 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Shaffer, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Elizabeth Bishop, Abbot Oliba, Anthony Trollope, and Valery Bryusov. After him are Al-Hariri of Basra, Lucinda Riley, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, David Burliuk, Walafrid Strabo, and Alexandre Benois.

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Among people born in 1918, Philip José Farmer ranks 90. Before him are Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Fanny Blankers-Koen, E. Howard Hunt, Cicely Saunders, Lucian Pulvermacher, and Konstantinos Mitsotakis. After him are Thomas Gordon, Jean-Marie Loret, Ian Stevenson, Dora Ratjen, Gara Garayev, and Antonín Mrkos. Among people deceased in 2009, Philip José Farmer ranks 89. Before him are Edward T. Hall, Kim Peek, Augusto Boal, Glenn Davis, James Whitmore, and Armen Takhtajan. After him are Andrew Wyeth, Félix Malloum, Shih Kien, Alicia de Larrocha, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, and Manea Mănescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip José Farmer ranks 2,684 out of 20,380. Before him are George Antheil (1900), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Frances Conroy (1953), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), and Alan Menken (1949). After him are David Schwimmer (1966), Rhea Seehorn (1972), Dick York (1928), Sinbad (1956), Michael Walzer (1935), and John Schneider (1960).

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Among writers born in United States, Philip José Farmer ranks 217. Before him are Jeffery Deaver (1950), Upton Sinclair (1878), William Carlos Williams (1883), Stephen Crane (1871), Paul Goodman (1911), and Elizabeth Bishop (1911). After him are Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), Richard Ford (1944), Siri Hustvedt (1955), and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942).

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