WRITER

Ken Follett

1949 - Today

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Kenneth Martin Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 195 million copies of his works. Follett's commercial breakthrough came with the spy thriller Eye of the Needle (1978). After writing more best-sellers in the genre in the 1980s, he branched into historical fiction with The Pillars of the Earth (1989), an epic set in medieval England which became his best-known work and the first published in the Kingsbridge series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Follett has received more than 3,368,604 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Follett is the 351st most popular writer (up from 370th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 292nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Writer.

Ken Follett is most famous for his novel "The Pillars of the Earth" which is about the building of a cathedral in the 12th century.

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  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ken Follett ranks 351 out of 7,302. Before him are Marguerite Yourcenar, Apollonius of Rhodes, Max Brod, Karl May, Ezra Pound, and Joseph Brodsky. After him are Louise Glück, Yunus Emre, Ahmad Yasawi, Herta Müller, Mikhail Lermontov, and Simonides of Ceos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ken Follett ranks 19. Before him are Sigourney Weaver, Arsène Wenger, Richard Gere, Maurice Gibb, Abdullah Öcalan, and André Rieu. After him are Bruce Springsteen, Roger Taylor, Sandra Mason, Slavoj Žižek, Thomas Sankara, and Jessica Lange.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Follett ranks 242 out of 8,785. Before him are William Wordsworth (1770), John Law (1671), Edward the Black Prince (1330), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), and Ken Miles (1918). After him are Jimmy Page (1944), Phil Collins (1951), Francis Galton (1822), Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Taylor (1949), and James II of England (1633).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Ken Follett ranks 30. Before him are Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), William Golding (1911), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), C. S. Lewis (1898), and William Wordsworth (1770). After him are Ian Fleming (1908), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), John Keats (1795), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828).

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