WRITER

Michael Moorcock

1939 - Today

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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Moorcock has received more than 1,841,004 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Michael Moorcock is the 1,559th most popular writer (down from 1,492nd in 2019), the 1,188th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,190th in 2019) and the 135th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Stormbringer
1968
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Fiction, Swordsmen, Albinos and albinism
1976
The Chronicles of Corum
1978
The Vanishing Tower
1971
Elric of Melnibone
Fiction, Elric of Melniboné (Fictitious character)
1976
Elric
English Fantasy fiction, Elric of Melniboné (Fictitious character), Fiction
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Moorcock ranks 1,559 out of 7,302. Before him are Elizabeth Bishop, Pío Baroja, Antoine de Montchrestien, Ben Shapiro, Wen Tianxiang, and Liu Cixin. After him are Jeffery Deaver, Marcel Achard, William Heinesen, Konstantin Simonov, Anna de Noailles, and Philippe de Commines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Michael Moorcock ranks 101. Before him are Eugene Fama, Nikola Pilić, Bernard Kouchner, Yaphet Kotto, Cynthia Lennon, and Kathryn Joosten. After him are Lee Majors, Krzysztof Zanussi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, Velibor Vasović, and Barbara Liskov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Moorcock ranks 1,188 out of 8,785. Before him are Emily Blunt (1983), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), John Fisher (1469), Max Mosley (1940), and Thomas Browne (1605). After him are Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Edith Cavell (1865), John Kay (1704), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), and James Lind (1716).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Michael Moorcock ranks 135. Before him are Vita Sackville-West (1892), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Allen Carr (1934), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Evelyn Waugh (1903), and John Gay (1685). After him are Hugh Lofting (1886), Sister Nivedita (1867), Alistair MacLean (1922), Ruth Rendell (1930), Alasdair Gray (1934), and Robert Faurisson (1929).

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