WRITER

Michael Connelly

1956 - Today

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Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Connelly is the bestselling author of 38 novels and one work of non-fiction, with over 74 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into 40 languages. His first novel, The Black Echo, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Connelly has received more than 3,680,467 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Michael Connelly is the 1,095th most popular writer (up from 1,111th in 2019), the 1,288th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,352nd in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Connelly ranks 1,095 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Karo, Nathalie Sarraute, Pierre Louÿs, Dositej Obradović, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Fernando Arrabal. After him are Jean Moréas, Alfred Brehm, Cees Nooteboom, Yosano Akiko, John William Polidori, and Leonid Andreyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Michael Connelly ranks 39. Before him are William Fichtner, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Aileen Wuornos, Ravi Shankar, Zbigniew Boniek, and Kim Cattrall. After him are Imelda Staunton, Eric Roberts, Marc Dutroux, Alexey Pajitnov, Danny Boyle, and Larry Bird.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Connelly ranks 1,288 out of 20,380. Before him are John Dickinson (1732), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Timothy Leary (1920), Susan Hayward (1917), J. Michael Bishop (1936), and Cordell Hull (1871). After him are Joe Mantegna (1947), Gillian Anderson (1968), John Saxon (1935), Henry Hathaway (1898), Ray Ewry (1873), and Anastacia (1968).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Michael Connelly ranks 123. Before him are Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Sam Shepard (1943), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Valerie Solanas (1936), and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840). After him are Norman Mailer (1923), John Grisham (1955), John Updike (1932), Fredric Brown (1906), Anne Rice (1941), and E. Howard Hunt (1918).

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