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Walter M. Miller Jr.

1923 - 1996

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Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 – January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer. His fix-up novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), the only novel published in his lifetime, won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Prior to its publication, he was a writer of short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter M. Miller Jr. is the 1,331st most popular writer (up from 5,139th in 2019), the 1,928th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,328th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 1,331 out of 7,302. Before him are Lu Yu, Abu Tammam, Samuel R. Delany, Henri Murger, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and Widukind of Corvey. After him are Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Dag Solstad, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Barbara Cartland, and Arnold van Gennep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 72. Before him are Rudolph A. Marcus, Rasul Gamzatov, Koji Miyata, Cliff Robertson, Zlatko Čajkovski, and Chaleo Yoovidhya. After him are Norman Mailer, Edgar F. Codd, Chuck Yeager, Hwang Jang-yop, Frederick Herzberg, and Valentina Cortese. Among people deceased in 1996, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 65. Before him are Obdulio Varela, Pat Brown, Rafael Kubelík, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Leonor Fini. After him are María Casares, Brigitte Helm, Lucio Fulci, Toru Takemitsu, Spiro Agnew, and Frida Boccara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 1,928 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin James (1965), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Terry O'Quinn (1952), Nelson Goodman (1906), Frank Langella (1938), and Louis Ignarro (1941). After him are William M. Branham (1909), Linda Thompson (1950), Connie Francis (1938), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), Steve Ditko (1927), and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Walter M. Miller Jr. ranks 153. Before him are Carson McCullers (1917), James Ellroy (1948), Joyce Carol Oates (1938), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), and Samuel R. Delany (1942). After him are Diana Gabaldon (1952), Nora Roberts (1950), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Fredric Brown (1906), Norman Mailer (1923), and Harry Harrison (1925).

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