WRITER

Horace McCoy

1897 - 1955

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Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace McCoy has received more than 108,947 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Horace McCoy is the 2,689th most popular writer (down from 2,568th in 2019), the 3,403rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,346th in 2019) and the 296th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

J'Aurais du Rester Chez Nous
1980
I should have stayed home
Fiction, Motion picture industry, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1938
Scalpel
1952
Kiss tomorrow good-bye
1948
No pockets in a shroud
Fiction in English
1937
They shoot horses, don't they?
Fiction, Dance marathons
1935

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Horace McCoy ranks 2,689 out of 7,302. Before him are Labīd, Jacques Collin de Plancy, Alex Haley, Jean-François de La Harpe, David Lagercrantz, and Giuseppe Giacosa. After him are Robert M. Pirsig, William Smith, Violette Leduc, Hildebert, Yi Kwang-su, and Juliette Adam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Horace McCoy ranks 139. Before him are Peter Högl, Nima Yooshij, Edith Head, Georgios Grivas, Wilfred Bion, and August Heissmeyer. After him are Wilhelm Falley, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Zhang Guotao, Paul Ben-Haim, and Ram Prasad Bismil. Among people deceased in 1955, Horace McCoy ranks 77. Before him are Isak Samokovlija, Holger Nielsen, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Arthur Tansley, Jim Corbett, and Jirō Minami. After him are Carl Milles, Ona Munson, Louis Charles Breguet, Hubert Cecil Booth, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Ango Sakaguchi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace McCoy ranks 3,403 out of 20,380. Before him are Seth Rollins (1986), Mick Mars (1951), Jack Cassidy (1927), Jeff Hanneman (1964), Robert D. Putnam (1941), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954). After him are Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Melissa Sue Anderson (1962), Vernor Vinge (1944), Earnie Shavers (1944), Machine Gun Kelly (1990), and Fred Quimby (1886).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Horace McCoy ranks 296. Before him are Richard Bandler (1950), John Cheever (1912), William Goldman (1931), Michael Cunningham (1952), Harlan Ellison (1934), and Alex Haley (1921). After him are Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Henry Darger (1892), Eric Roth (1945), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), Stephenie Meyer (1973), and Harold Robbins (1916).

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