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M. Scott Peck

1936 - 2005

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Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. Scott Peck has received more than 1,101,087 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). M. Scott Peck is the 5,395th most popular writer (down from 4,976th in 2019), the 8,728th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,477th in 2019) and the 689th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 43.26

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, M. Scott Peck ranks 5,395 out of 5,755Before him are Sarah Waters, Thomas Hughes, Kevin J. Anderson, Edward Abbey, Peter Seeberg, and Mihkel Veske. After him are Liu Xia, Eldridge Cleaver, Giannina Braschi, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Max Eastman, and Shahrnush Parsipur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, M. Scott Peck ranks 434Before him are Dahlia Ravikovitch, Hannu Salama, Paulo Emilio, German Apukhtin, Gerald Scarfe, and Janusz Zakrzeński. After him are Herbert Boyer, Tony Lo Bianco, Charlie Daniels, Leon O. Chua, Loren Acton, and Rubén Héctor Sosa. Among people deceased in 2005, M. Scott Peck ranks 277Before him are Ihor Rybak, Leonid Shamkovich, Paul Winchell, John N. Bahcall, Givi Nodia, and Spencer Dryden. After him are Wolfgang Blochwitz, Eugene J. Martin, Richard Doll, Arnold Denker, Hubert Curien, and Wendie Jo Sperber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, M. Scott Peck ranks 8,728 out of 18,182Before him are Stith Thompson (1885), Annette Rogers (1913), George Montgomery (1916), Gorilla Monsoon (1937), David Burtka (1975), and Joe Roth (1948). After him are Wes Bentley (1978), Alan Jay Lerner (1918), Julian Casablancas (1978), Blue Mitchell (1930), Mary Arthur McElroy (1841), and Fritz Weaver (1926).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, M. Scott Peck ranks 689Before him are Steven Saylor (1956), Helene Hanff (1916), Avram Davidson (1923), Diane Ackerman (1948), Kevin J. Anderson (1962), and Edward Abbey (1927). After him are Eldridge Cleaver (1935), Max Eastman (1883), Michael Blake (1945), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Winston Churchill (1871), and Akiva Goldsman (1962).