WRITER

Alex Garland

1970 - Today

Alex Garland

Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He subsequently received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex Garland has received more than 4,751,033 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alex Garland is the 5,994th most popular writer (down from 5,434th in 2019), the 4,837th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,464th in 2019) and the 542nd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

4.8M
Page Views (PV)
43.99
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
31
Languages Editions (L)
2.40
Effective Languages (L*)
4.30
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The coma

Coma, Patients, Fiction

2004

The Paladin

Prime ministers, Fiction in English, World War, 1939-1945

1979

Hopscotch

Fiction, Fugitives from justice, thriller

Miles Kendig is one of the CIA’s top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life—gambling, drinking, sex—offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent’s offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict, Kendig skulks through Paris like the walking dead. To revive himself, he begins writing a tell-all memoir, divulging every secret he accumulated in his long career. Neither CIA nor KGB can afford to have it in print, and so he challenges them both: Until they catch him, a chapter will go to the publisher every week. Kendig’s life is fun again, with survival on the line.

1967

Death wish

Fiction, Fiction in English, Murder

Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul’s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken and forced to reevaluate his views, Benjamin becomes disillusioned with society and plots his revenge on the perpetrators, whom the police are unable to bring to justice. Armed with a revolver and total disregard for his own safety, he sets out to even the score.

1972

The beach

Beaches, Fiction, Literature

1996

The thousand-mile war

Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945, Weltkrieg

The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.

1969

Page views of Alex Garlands by language

Over the past year Alex Garland has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 1,177,193 views, followed by Russian (49,453), and German (45,138). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (96.21%), Cornish (93.99%), and Swedish (86.95%)