WRITER

Kim Newman

1959 - Today

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Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternative history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kim Newman has received more than 351,168 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kim Newman is the 5,387th most popular writer (down from 5,354th in 2019), the 4,090th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,346th in 2019) and the 456th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Fiction, Vampires, Count Dracula (Fictitious character)
1998
The bloody Red Baron
English Horror tales, Fiction, horror, Vampires, fiction
1995
The Quorum
City and town life, Devil, Fiction
1994
The night mayor
Fiction, general
Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn't any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer. It is the near future and old-fashioned movies, or "flatties", have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by professional Dreamers. When infamous criminal Truro Daine escapes imprisonment, he flees into the City, an artificial world of his own creation, where he rules as the all-powerful Night Mayor.
1989
Bad Dreams
Subculture, Fiction, Fiction, general
Anne Nielson, an American journalist, comes to London to investigate the strange death of her sister. Soon, she becomes sucked into a netherworld of corruption and perversion and is hurtled toward a final confrontation where she has only the dead as allies.
1990
Anno Dracula
Count Dracula (Fictitious character), Fiction, Vampires
1992

Page views of Kim Newmen by language

Over the past year Kim Newman has had the most page views in the with 43,697 views, followed by Russian (1,918), and Italian (1,599). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (198.52%), Esperanto (139.16%), and Southern Azerbaijani (86.34%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kim Newman ranks 5,387 out of 7,302. Before him are Jan Twardowski, Ali Smith, Jeanne Dumée, Tommaso Grossi, Richard Llewellyn, and Sony Lab'ou Tansi. After him are Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, László Németh, Karim Rashid, Roland Dorgelès, and Jorge Icaza Coronel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Kim Newman ranks 307. Before him are John Sykes, Judd Nelson, Luis Fernando Suárez, Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, Jayne Atkinson, and Billy Campbell. After him are Norm Macdonald, Yasuhito Suzuki, José Carlos Somoza, Dainis Kūla, Darío Grandinetti, and Michael Klein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kim Newman ranks 4,090 out of 8,785. Before him are Dan Stevens (1982), Peter Firth (1953), William Henry Smyth (1788), Tony Jay (1933), Richard Llewellyn (1906), and John Martyn (1948). After him are Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), James D'Arcy (1975), Howard Stringer (1942), Colin Hay (1953), Jesse Ramsden (1735), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Kim Newman ranks 456. Before him are Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), Daniel Tammet (1979), Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), Aneirin (525), Ali Smith (1962), and Richard Llewellyn (1906). After him are Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Olivia Manning (1908), Mary Sidney (1561), and John Clare (1793).

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