WRITER

William Gaddis

1922 - 1998

William Gaddis

William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place (2002). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Gaddis is the 4,271st most popular writer (up from 4,362nd in 2019), the 6,327th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,828th in 2019) and the 481st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, William Gaddis ranks 4,271 out of 7,302. Before him are Sándor Weöres, Hadiya Davletshina, Lyuben Karavelov, Anne Tyler, Emmanuel Roblès, and Pauline Kael. After him are Samih al-Qasim, Thorkild Hansen, Margaret Weis, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Orientius, and Ōtomo no Tabito.

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Sándor Weöres
1913 - 1989
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 4,265
Hadiya Davletshina
1905 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 4,266
Lyuben Karavelov
1834 - 1879
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 4,267
Anne Tyler
1941 - Present
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 4,268
Emmanuel Roblès
1914 - 1995
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 4,269
Pauline Kael
1919 - 2001
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 4,270
William Gaddis
1922 - 1998
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 4,271
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 2014
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 4,272
Thorkild Hansen
1927 - 1989
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 4,273
Margaret Weis
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 4,274
Giovanni Battista Giraldi
1504 - 1574
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 4,275
Orientius
400 - 444
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 4,276
Ōtomo no Tabito
665 - 731
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 4,277

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, William Gaddis ranks 266. Before him are Jean Porter, Daniel Boulanger, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Võ Văn Kiệt, Juan Antonio Villacañas, and Jock Stein. After him are Károly Németh, Hal Clement, China Zorrilla, Leonel Brizola, Ruby Dee, and Rosalio José Castillo Lara. Among people deceased in 1998, William Gaddis ranks 191. Before him are Raquel Rastenni, Odette Bancilhon, André Bonin, Christiane Rochefort, Gene Autry, and Louis Hostin. After him are Mikio Oda, Marion Donovan, Manuel Álvarez, Maurice Schumann, Johannes Kotkas, and Wanda Jakubowska.

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Jean Porter
ACTOR
1922 - 2018
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 260
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1922 - 2014
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 261
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HPI: 57.46
Rank: 262
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1922 - 2008
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 263
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1922 - 2001
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 264
Jock Stein
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1922 - 1985
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 265
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WRITER
1922 - 1998
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 266
Károly Németh
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1922 - 2008
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 267
Hal Clement
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1922 - 2003
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 268
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1922 - 2014
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 269
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1922 - 2004
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 270
Ruby Dee
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1922 - 2014
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 271
Rosalio José Castillo Lara
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1922 - 2007
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 272