WRITER

Joan Lindsay

1896 - 1984

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Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 1896 – 23 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled Through Darkest Pondelayo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Lindsay has received more than 225,085 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Lindsay is the 3,986th most popular writer, the 134th most popular biography from Australia and the 13th most popular Australian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

No Rest for the Dead
Large type books, American Detective and mystery stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-five masters of suspense follows detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens a ten-year-old case to discover if the wrong person was convicted and put to death for the murder of art curator Christopher Thomas.
2011
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic grounds, Missing persons, Investigation
"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue"--
2014
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Fiction, psychological, Missing persons, fiction, Australia, fiction
1991
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Fiction, general, Fiction
1968
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1970
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joan Lindsay ranks 3,986 out of 7,302. Before her are Emmy Hennings, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, Lady Ise, Frankétienne, Yuriy Venelin, and Wilferd Madelung. After her are Matilde Serao, Maxwell Anderson, Ralph Ellison, Sarah Kirsch, Alexander Neckam, and Mary Norton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Joan Lindsay ranks 162. Before her are Vilho Niittymaa, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, George Burns, Robert E. Sherwood, Friedrich Waismann, and Ulises Saucedo. After her are Sao Shwe Thaik, Lilia Skala, Murray Leinster, Edward Arthur Milne, William Gopallawa, and Robert Gerhard. Among people deceased in 1984, Joan Lindsay ranks 152. Before her are Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Merman, Vincent J. McMahon, Sven Jonasson, Ralph Kirkpatrick, and Grete Hermann. After her are Marcel Moyse, Peter Walker, Fulvio Bernardini, Claude Chevalley, Luke Kelly, and Kurt Martti Wallenius.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Joan Lindsay ranks 134 out of 1,143. Before her are Raewyn Connell (1944), Yagan (1800), Albert Namatjira (1902), Russell Mulcahy (1953), James Wolfensohn (1933), and Bill Hayden (1933). After her are Peter Scully (1963), Radha Mitchell (1973), Tim Schenken (1943), John Winter (1924), Mick Doohan (1965), and Phillip Noyce (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Joan Lindsay ranks 13. Before her are Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), Germaine Greer (1939), Banjo Paterson (1864), and John Flanagan (1944). After her are Gregory David Roberts (1952), Peter Carey (1943), Greg Egan (1961), Trudi Canavan (1969), Joseph Jacobs (1854), and Patricia Wrightson (1921).

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