WRITER

Mickey Spillane

1918 - 2006

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Frank Morrison Spillane (; March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mickey Spillane has received more than 1,158,744 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mickey Spillane is the 3,236th most popular writer (down from 2,618th in 2019), the 4,122nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,429th in 2019) and the 348th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kiss me, deadly
Fiction, Private investigators, Mike Hammer (Fictitious character)
1952
Vengeance is mine
Fiction, Private investigators, Mike Hammer (Fictitious character)
1950
The Deep
Fiction, Private investigators, Mike Hammer (Fictitious character)
1961
My gun is quick
Mystery, Private investigators, Fiction
1950
I, the Jury
Fiction, Private investigators, Mike Hammer (Fictitious character)
1947
One Lonely Night
Fiction, Large type books, Mike Hammer (Fictitious character)
1951

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mickey Spillane ranks 3,236 out of 7,302. Before him are Jules Barbier, Evgeny Schwartz, John VIII of Constantinople, Arnold Bennett, Giosafat Barbaro, and Kálmán Mikszáth. After him are Monteiro Lobato, Simon of Kéza, Paul Johnson, Kim Hyon-hui, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Mohammad-Taqi Bahar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Mickey Spillane ranks 148. Before him are Kazuo Sakamaki, Anatoly Tarasov, Georgios Rallis, María Mercader, Mehdi Huseynzade, and Brenda Milner. After him are Lucian Pulvermacher, Oles Honchar, Albert George Wilson, Eric Ericson, Abraham Pais, and Iryna Melnykova. Among people deceased in 2006, Mickey Spillane ranks 172. Before him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Maureen Stapleton, Maynard Ferguson, Gennadiy Aygi, Desmond Dekker, and Peter Benchley. After him are Tadao Onishi, Andreas Katsulas, Peter Norman, Galina Ustvolskaya, Vilgot Sjöman, and Hugh Thompson Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mickey Spillane ranks 4,122 out of 20,380. Before him are Harry Hillman (1881), Paul Rand (1914), Paul Milgrom (1948), Dorothy Day (1897), Sherilyn Fenn (1965), and Meredith Monk (1942). After him are Harry Carey Jr. (1921), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), George C. Homans (1910), E. G. Marshall (1914), and Allen Klein (1931).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mickey Spillane ranks 348. Before him are Edward Gorey (1925), Henry Kuttner (1915), Anne Tyler (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Peter Benchley (1940), and Hubert Selby Jr. (1928). After him are Edward Bellamy (1850), Gregory Benford (1941), Willa Cather (1873), Wallace Stevens (1879), Douglas Preston (1956), and Robert McKee (1941).

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