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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, whose 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 1,061,597 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Mickey Spillane is the 2,626th most popular writer (up from 2,770th in 2019), the 3,438th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,543rd in 2019) and the 307th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mickey Spillane ranks 2,626 out of 5,755Before him are Bekir Çoban-zade, Banana Yoshimoto, Charlie Kaufman, Herbert Read, Juan Gelman, and Duris of Samos. After him are Samson Raphael Hirsch, Jeremias Gotthelf, Yasushi Inoue, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Takuboku Ishikawa, and Lucía Sánchez Saornil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Mickey Spillane ranks 128Before him are James Aldridge, Antonín Mrkos, Ruggiero Ricci, Jeff Chandler, George Mosse, and Jay Wright Forrester. After him are Willi Graf, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Bruno Zevi, María Mercader, Ángel Labruna, and Alejandro Agustín Lanusse. Among people deceased in 2006, Mickey Spillane ranks 132Before him are Seymour Martin Lipset, Wilson Pickett, Jack Williamson, Ahmet Ertegun, Richard Bright, and Dennis Weaver. After him are Ferenc Szusza, George Koval, John Profumo, Johannes Willebrands, W. Montgomery Watt, and Peter Boyle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mickey Spillane ranks 3,438 out of 18,182Before him are Ben Turpin (1869), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), and Jessica Walter (1941). After him are Geraldine Farrar (1882), Paul Giamatti (1967), Alexander Vandegrift (1887), Dana Andrews (1909), Jon Krakauer (1954), and Jill Clayburgh (1944).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mickey Spillane ranks 307Before him are Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Lois Lowry (1937), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Elmore Leonard (1925), Robert Penn Warren (1905), and Charlie Kaufman (1958). After him are John Cheever (1912), Bell hooks (1952), Jack Thayer (1894), Steve Berry (1955), Erica Jong (1942), and Edward Gorey (1925).