WRITER

Anne Perry

1938 - 2023

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Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023) was a British writer and murderer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction. In 1994 it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted of murder in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954, when she was fifteen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Perry has received more than 2,481,690 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anne Perry is the 1,759th most popular writer (up from 1,782nd in 2019), the 1,344th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,401st in 2019) and the 151st most popular British Writer.

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  • 2.5M

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  • 63.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Perry ranks 1,759 out of 7,302Before her are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Alexandre Benois, Princess Michael of Kent, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Notker the Stammerer, and Richard Ford. After her are Suzanne Collins, Tavo Burat, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Raymond E. Feist, Adam Zagajewski, and Bhanubhakta Acharya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anne Perry ranks 131Before her are Bill Withers, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Marien Ngouabi, Hermann Nitsch, Benjamin Mkapa, and Yuri Temirkanov. After her are Vasyl Stus, Shotaro Ishinomori, Karel Svoboda, Patrick Bauchau, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, and Jan Assmann. Among people deceased in 2023, Anne Perry ranks 148Before her are Don Walsh, Marc Augé, Lance Reddick, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Burhan Sargun, and Yuri Temirkanov. After her are Américo Lopes, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Treat Williams, Kaija Saariaho, Luboš Kohoutek, and Arnaldo Forlani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Perry ranks 1,344 out of 8,785Before her are Malcolm McLaren (1946), Horace Walpole (1717), James Glaisher (1809), Paul Scholes (1974), Thomas Tew (1649), and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784). After her are Roger Fenton (1819), Edmund Kean (1787), George Atwood (1745), Edward Waring (1736), William Prout (1785), and Peter Burke (1937).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anne Perry ranks 151Before her are Walafrid Strabo (808), Edward Lear (1812), Barbara Cartland (1901), Branwell Brontë (1817), Lucinda Riley (1965), and Arthur Machen (1863). After her are Ted Hughes (1930), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Brian Aldiss (1925), Colin Wilson (1931), and Joseph Addison (1672).