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Jack Higgins

1929 - 2022

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Henry Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title.Some of his other notable books are A Prayer for the Dying (1973), The Eagle Has Flown (1991), Thunder Point (1993), Angel of Death (1995), Flight of Eagles (1998), and Day of Reckoning (2000). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Higgins has received more than 733,254 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jack Higgins is the 3,063rd most popular writer (down from 2,661st in 2019), the 2,281st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,017th in 2019) and the 264th most popular British Writer.

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  • 730k

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  • 51.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jack Higgins ranks 3,063 out of 5,755Before him are Charles Grandison Finney, Qian Zhongshu, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Jean-François Revel, Gunilla Bergström, and Antonio Ghislanzoni. After him are Glen A. Larson, Torben Ulrich, Pierre Souvestre, Abdulah Sidran, Ioan Slavici, and Winston Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jack Higgins ranks 216Before him are Kishore Kumar, Horst Frank, Adrienne Rich, Piero Cappuccilli, Milton Glaser, and Johan Otto von Spreckelsen. After him are Liselotte Pulver, Berry Gordy, Otar Patsatsia, Katherine Helmond, Lee Shau-kee, and Hermann Prey. Among people deceased in 2022, Jack Higgins ranks 193Before him are Paul Veyne, Herbert Achternbusch, Joe Turkel, Juris Hartmanis, Kitten Natividad, and Joe E. Tata. After him are Maurice Karnaugh, Irene Cara, Vlado Milunić, Cristina Calderón, Manuel Esquivel, and Pablo Milanés.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Higgins ranks 2,281 out of 7,765Before him are Tony Banks (1950), Richard Hammond (1969), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), David Gill (1843), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), and William Curtis (1746). After him are Winston Graham (1908), Natalie Dormer (1982), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Patrick Troughton (1920), Richard Williamson (1940), and Colin Clark (1905).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jack Higgins ranks 264Before him are Charles Lamb (1775), Nick Hornby (1957), Anthony Horowitz (1955), William Smith (1813), Dodie Smith (1896), and Richard Hammond (1969). After him are Winston Graham (1908), John Stott (1921), Wilfred Owen (1893), John Evelyn (1620), Charles Kingsley (1819), and Branwell Brontë (1817).