WRITER

Georgette Heyer

1902 - 1974

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Georgette Heyer (; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgette Heyer has received more than 810,556 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Georgette Heyer is the 3,728th most popular writer (down from 3,655th in 2019), the 2,651st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,681st in 2019) and the 301st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georgette Heyer ranks 3,728 out of 7,302. Before her are Bhalchandra Nemade, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Jules Lemaître, Glückel of Hameln, Constance Lloyd, and Sunthorn Phu. After her are Wu Jingzi, Bruno Apitz, Innokenty Annensky, Philippe Jaccottet, James A. Michener, and José Emilio Pacheco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Georgette Heyer ranks 190. Before her are Sylvain Arend, Henri Saint Cyr, Moderato Wisintainer, Miriam Hopkins, Flora Robson, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. After her are Lon L. Fuller, Eva May, Ida Siekmann, David Arellano, Juan José Tramutola, and George Kingsley Zipf. Among people deceased in 1974, Georgette Heyer ranks 137. Before her are Anna Q. Nilsson, Adolph Gottlieb, Holger Meins, Berdi Kerbabayev, Margit Slachta, and Peter Revson. After her are Egon Wellesz, Axel Cadier, Hertta Kuusinen, Carl Spaatz, Karl Sesta, and José Miró Cardona.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Georgette Heyer ranks 2,651 out of 8,785. Before her are Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), Henry Cole (1808), Dick Parry (1942), Joey Dunlop (1952), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), and Constance Lloyd (1858). After her are Dave Legeno (1963), William Curtis (1746), James Somerville (1882), James Young Simpson (1811), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), and Andrew Bell (1753).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Georgette Heyer ranks 301. Before her are Siegfried Sassoon (1886), William Robertson Smith (1846), Diana Mosley (1910), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Nancy Mitford (1904), and Constance Lloyd (1858). After her are Ian Rankin (1960), Rupert Brooke (1887), Nick Hornby (1957), Mary Renault (1905), Iain Banks (1954), and Israel Zangwill (1864).

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