WRITER

Edgar Wallace

1875 - 1932

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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Wallace has received more than 825,074 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Edgar Wallace is the 819th most popular writer (up from 830th in 2019), the 622nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 683rd in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Writer.

Edgar Wallace is most famous for his crime and mystery novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 830k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edgar Wallace ranks 819 out of 7,302. Before him are Basava, Odysseas Elytis, Danilo Kiš, Charles Maurras, Tony Buzan, and Jerome K. Jerome. After him are Ban Gu, Theodor Fontane, Ahmad Khani, Neale Donald Walsch, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and Ibn Hawqal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Edgar Wallace ranks 27. Before him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giovanni Gentile, Fritz Kreisler, Paul Landowski, Zhang Zuolin, and Antonio Machado. After him are Matthias Erzberger, D. W. Griffith, Mihály Károlyi, Henri Lebesgue, Albert Marquet, and Anatoly Lunacharsky. Among people deceased in 1932, Edgar Wallace ranks 17. Before him are Errico Malatesta, George Eastman, Ronald Ross, Max Wolf, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, and Joseph Babinski. After him are Margaret Brown, Sophia of Prussia, André Maginot, Pavlik Morozov, Jules Chéret, and Eugen d'Albert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edgar Wallace ranks 622 out of 8,785. Before him are John le Carré (1931), Bryan Ferry (1945), Eduard Suess (1831), Tony Buzan (1942), Tilda Swinton (1960), and Jerome K. Jerome (1859). After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), Chris Norman (1950), Thomas Savery (1650), John Newlands (1837), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), and Alfonso de Portago (1928).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edgar Wallace ranks 74. Before him are William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Eleanor Marx (1855), Thomas Hardy (1840), John le Carré (1931), Tony Buzan (1942), and Jerome K. Jerome (1859). After him are John Bunyan (1628), Julian Barnes (1946), W. H. Auden (1907), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Wilkie Collins (1824), and Aubrey Beardsley (1872).

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