WRITER

James Clavell

1921 - 1994

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James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born, British-raised and educated, naturalized-American writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. Clavell also wrote such screenplays as those for The Fly (1958), based on the short story by George Langelaan, and The Great Escape (1963), based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Clavell has received more than 2,205,165 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). James Clavell is the 1,686th most popular writer (down from 1,360th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Australia (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Australian Writer.

James Clavell is most famous for his book Shogun, which tells the story of a British sailor who is captured by Japanese pirates and taken to Japan.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Clavell ranks 1,686 out of 7,302. Before him are Emilia Pardo Bazán, Henri de Régnier, Otfried Preußler, Jean-Jacques Ampère, François Pierre La Varenne, and Eliza Orzeszkowa. After him are Anna Leonowens, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Branwell Brontë, Hannah Szenes, R. L. Stine, and Arseny Tarkovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, James Clavell ranks 107. Before him are Hans Albert, Jean-Marie Balestre, Mary Douglas, John Money, Nobuo Matsunaga, and George Roy Hill. After him are Hannah Szenes, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Oskar Gröning, Meir Amit, Maurice Richard, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Among people deceased in 1994, James Clavell ranks 91. Before him are Yevgeny Leonov, Luis Ocaña, Nikolai Ogarkov, Jack Unterweger, Max Morlock, and Innokenty Smoktunovsky. After him are Andrés Escobar, Howard Martin Temin, Baruch Goldstein, Juan Carlos Onetti, Wilma Rudolph, and Marcel Bich.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, James Clavell ranks 50 out of 1,143. Before him are Barry Marshall (1951), Eric Bana (1968), Jonathan Hyde (1948), Liam Hemsworth (1990), Judith Anderson (1897), and George Miller (1945). After him are Nick Cave (1957), Flea (1962), Edward Cassidy (1924), Simon Baker (1969), Luís Vaz de Torres (1565), and Rhonda Byrne (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, James Clavell ranks 3. Before him are Colleen McCullough (1937), and P. L. Travers (1899). After him are Rhonda Byrne (1945), Thomas Keneally (1935), Annette Kellermann (1887), Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), Germaine Greer (1939), Banjo Paterson (1864), and John Flanagan (1944).

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