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Robin Hobb

1952 - Today

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Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (née Lindholm; born March 5, 1952), known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. As Hobb, she is best known for her fantasy novels set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which comprise the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, the Rain Wild Chronicles, and the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Lindholm's writing includes the urban fantasy novel Wizard of the Pigeons and science fiction short stories, among other works. As of 2018, her fiction has been translated into 22 languages and sold more than 4 million copies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robin Hobb is the 1,496th most popular writer (down from 1,390th in 2019), the 2,171st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,703rd in 2019) and the 172nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robin Hobb ranks 1,496 out of 7,302. Before her are Hugo Claus, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Veronica Franco, François de Malherbe, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Robert Bloch. After her are Ibn al-Khatib, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Gustav Landauer, Gampopa, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, and Mario Benedetti.

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Among people born in 1952, Robin Hobb ranks 107. Before her are Anne-Marie David, Frances Fisher, Raymond Domenech, Christine Baranski, Imran Khan, and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. After her are Mahamadou Issoufou, Michael Massee, Abbas al-Musawi, Michael McDonald, Eric Adams, and Joe Strummer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robin Hobb ranks 2,171 out of 20,380. Before her are Paul L. Smith (1936), Oliver Otis Howard (1830), Stacy Keach (1941), Robert Bloch (1917), John Densmore (1944), and Paul Marcinkus (1922). After her are John du Pont (1938), Alan Bean (1932), Lepke Buchalter (1897), Priscilla Lane (1915), Robert Atkins (1930), and Pete Sampras (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robin Hobb ranks 172. Before her are Alice Walker (1944), J. Michael Straczynski (1954), Dan Simmons (1948), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Martin Gardner (1914), and Robert Bloch (1917). After her are Jean M. Auel (1936), Gore Vidal (1925), Thornton Wilder (1897), Fredric Jameson (1934), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), and Ken Kesey (1935).

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