WRITER

Mary Stewart

1916 - 2014

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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow; 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Stewart has received more than 33,812 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mary Stewart is the 4,841st most popular writer (down from 4,201st in 2019), the 3,523rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,098th in 2019) and the 402nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 34k

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  • 48.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Stewart ranks 4,841 out of 7,302Before her are Norman Smith, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Zhu Ziqing, Leonti Mroveli, and Émile Souvestre. After her are Vittorio Messori, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Myrtis of Anthedon, Corín Tellado, Gulnazar Keldi, and Jim Harrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Mary Stewart ranks 206Before her are Edward Platt, Irving Wallace, Arnoldo Foà, Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Yekaterina Zelenko, and Shigeo Arai. After her are Anna Yegorova, Ondina Valla, Rostislav Alexeyev, Nancye Wynne Bolton, Neagu Djuvara, and Veronika Dudarova. Among people deceased in 2014, Mary Stewart ranks 312Before her are Mary Anderson, Polly Bergen, Lucien Clergue, Arnoldo Foà, Milan Horvat, and Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. After her are Carol Ann Susi, Simón Díaz, Paolo Salvati, Carmelo Bossi, Nadya Nozharova, and Suchitra Sen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Stewart ranks 3,523 out of 8,785Before her are Norman Smith (1923), Joe Cole (1981), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Peter Whitehead (1914), Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), and William Frederick Denning (1848). After her are W. J. Coffee (1774), Charles Jarrott (1927), Juliet Mills (1941), Naseem Hamed (1974), Sophie Okonedo (1968), and Patricia Routledge (1929).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mary Stewart ranks 402Before her are William Martin Leake (1777), Nicholas Evans (1950), John Lyly (1554), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), and Norman Smith (1923). After her are Len Deighton (1929), Alan Woods (1944), Susan Blackmore (1951), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), and Jonathan Coe (1961).