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Anne Perry

1938 - 2023

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Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023) was a British writer best known as 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 for murder as a teenager while living in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1954, at the age of fifteen, she and her 16-year-old friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker's mother, Honorah Rieper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Perry has received more than 2,306,445 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Anne Perry is the 1,786th most popular writer (up from 1,998th in 2019), the 1,406th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,550th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 2.3M

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  • 56.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Perry ranks 1,786 out of 5,755. Before her are André Brink, György Konrád, Elvira Madigan, Aphra Behn, Ion of Chios, and Robert Silverberg. After her are Telesilla, Hugh Lofting, John of Ephesus, William Caxton, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, and Jorge Manrique.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anne Perry ranks 127. Before her are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ivan Sutherland, Amfilohije Radović, Oleg Gordievsky, Marien Ngouabi, and Nabih Berri. After her are Seishiro Shimatani, David Lane, Shotaro Ishinomori, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Angelo Amato, and Hermann Nitsch. Among people deceased in 2023, Anne Perry ranks 88. Before her are Mark Margolis, Mary Quant, Sinéad O'Connor, Wayne Shorter, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, and Gianluca Vialli. After her are Charlie Munger, Ruslan Khasbulatov, Federico Bahamontes, Amitai Etzioni, Chaim Topol, and Lisa Marie Presley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Perry ranks 1,406 out of 7,765. Before her are Ken Russell (1927), Peter Mayhew (1944), William Sturgeon (1783), Stevie Young (1956), Aphra Behn (1640), and Simon Stock (1164). After her are Hugh Lofting (1886), Patrick Head (1946), William Caxton (1422), Andy Summers (1942), John Guillermin (1925), and Lady Caroline Lamb (1785).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anne Perry ranks 152. Before her are Edward Lear (1812), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Peter Shaffer (1926), and Aphra Behn (1640). After her are Hugh Lofting (1886), William Caxton (1422), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Brian Aldiss (1925), Christopher Isherwood (1904), and Lucinda Riley (1965).

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