WRITER

Arthur Hailey

1920 - 2004

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Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Hailey has received more than 492,588 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Arthur Hailey is the 1,247th most popular writer (down from 1,176th in 2019), the 928th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 940th in 2019) and the 111th most popular British Writer.

Arthur Hailey is most famous for his novel, "The Hotel" which was made into a film starring Rod Taylor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Hotel
1965
The final diagnosis
Fiction
The daily activities and problems of Joe Pearson, chief pathologist at Three Counties reveal the drama of life in a large general hospital
19594 / 5
Airport
1968
Detective
1997
Wheels
Automobile industry and trade
19714 / 5
In high places
1961

Page views of Arthur Hailies by language

Over the past year Arthur Hailey has had the most page views in the with 60,620 views, followed by English (60,327), and Bulgarian (8,910). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (60.83%), Ukrainian (57.55%), and Tajik (52.71%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Hailey ranks 1,247 out of 7,302. Before him are Yosa Buson, Salawat Yulayev, John Dryden, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Al-Khansa, and Publilius Syrus. After him are Samuel Pepys, Symeon the New Theologian, James Patterson, Elsa Triolet, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Claudio Magris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Arthur Hailey ranks 75. Before him are Ivan Kozhedub, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Albert Barillé, Robert Whittaker, Abe Lenstra, and Takashi Kano. After him are Alicia Alonso, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, Maurice Bucaille, Frank Sheeran, and Gottfried Böhm. Among people deceased in 2004, Arthur Hailey ranks 47. Before him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Robert Merle, Gérard Debreu, Ko Yong-hui, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Herbert C. Brown. After him are Norberto Bobbio, Brian Clough, Julia Child, Otto Kumm, Elmer Bernstein, and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Hailey ranks 928 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Thomas Tallis (1502), Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764), Terence Stamp (1938), John Dryden (1631), and Alan Hodgkin (1914). After him are Karl Jenkins (1944), Samuel Pepys (1633), John Harvard (1607), Carol Reed (1906), Duncan Edwards (1936), and Michael Atiyah (1929).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Hailey ranks 111. Before him are Samuel Butler (1612), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James Anderson (1680), David Irving (1938), and John Dryden (1631). After him are Samuel Pepys (1633), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Thomas Chatterton (1752), Alma Reville (1899), and Matthew Lewis (1775).

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