1897 - 1955
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 99,723 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Horace McCoy is the 2,576th most popular writer (down from 2,524th in 2019), the 3,354th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,228th in 2019) and the 298th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Horace McCoy ranks 2,576 out of 5,755. Before him are Xu Zhimo, Polemon I of Pontus, Cornelis de Bruijn, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Benjamin Fondane, and Abu-l-'Atahiya. After him are Shūji Terayama, Petar Hektorović, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Béla Király, Đura Jakšić, and John Moschus.
1897 - 1931
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 2,570
65 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 2,571
1652 - 1727
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 2,572
1937 - 1987
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 2,573
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 2,574
748 - 826
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 2,575
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 2,576
1935 - 1983
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 2,577
1487 - 1572
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 2,578
1796 - 1835
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 2,579
1912 - 2009
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 2,580
1832 - 1878
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 2,581
550 - 619
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 2,582
Among people born in 1897, Horace McCoy ranks 135. Before him are Tan Malaka, Gaspar Cassadó, Ram Prasad Bismil, Edith Head, Marian Anderson, and Xu Zhimo. After him are Traicho Kostov, Lazare Ponticelli, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, John Bagot Glubb, Natacha Rambova, and Lepke Buchalter. Among people deceased in 1955, Horace McCoy ranks 74. Before him are Holger Nielsen, Emma Jung, Isak Samokovlija, Louis Lachenal, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Carl Milles. After him are Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Theodor Innitzer, Lloyd Bacon, Louis Charles Breguet, and Emmett Till.
1897 - 1949
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 129
1897 - 1966
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 130
1897 - 1927
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 131
1897 - 1981
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 132
1897 - 1993
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 133
1897 - 1931
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 134
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 135
1897 - 1949
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 136
1897 - 2008
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 137
1897 - 1960
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 138
1897 - 1986
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 139
1897 - 1966
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 140
1897 - 1944
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 141
1866 - 1955
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 68
1882 - 1955
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 69
1889 - 1955
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 70
1921 - 1955
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 71
1869 - 1955
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 72
1875 - 1955
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 73
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 74
1885 - 1955
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 75
1871 - 1955
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 76
1875 - 1955
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 77
1889 - 1955
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 78
1880 - 1955
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 79
1941 - 1955
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 80
Among people born in United States, Horace McCoy ranks 3,354 out of 18,182. Before him are Tiger Woods (1975), Philip Michael Thomas (1949), Jeff Chandler (1918), Bobby Brown (1969), David Stern (1942), and Walter Koenig (1936). After him are Clarence Clemons (1942), Jean Hagen (1923), Rosemary Clooney (1928), George Washington Carver (1864), Sonny Landham (1941), and Barbara Kruger (1945).
1975 - Present
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 3,348
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 3,349
1918 - 1961
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 3,350
1969 - Present
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 3,351
1942 - 2020
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 3,352
1936 - Present
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 3,353
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 3,354
1942 - 2011
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 3,355
1923 - 1977
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 3,356
1928 - 2002
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 3,357
1864 - 1943
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 3,358
1941 - 2017
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 3,359
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 3,360
Among writers born in United States, Horace McCoy ranks 298. Before him are Eric Roth (1945), Lawrence Block (1938), Budd Schulberg (1914), Shere Hite (1942), Harlan Ellison (1934), and Harold Robbins (1916). After him are Gregory Corso (1930), E. L. Doctorow (1931), Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Lois Lowry (1937), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), and Elmore Leonard (1925).
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 292
1938 - Present
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 293
1914 - 2009
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 294
1942 - 2020
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 295
1934 - 2018
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 296
1916 - 1997
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 297
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 298
1930 - 2001
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 299
1931 - 2015
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 300
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 301
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 302
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 303
1925 - 2013
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 304