WRITER

Mo Hayder

1962 - 2021

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Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis and appeared as Miss Belfridge in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? She went on to write novels as Mo Hayder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mo Hayder has received more than 740,289 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mo Hayder is the 6,567th most popular writer (down from 5,762nd in 2019), the 5,888th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,078th in 2019) and the 675th most popular British Writer.

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  • 740k

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  • 48.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mo Hayder ranks 6,567 out of 7,302Before her are William Wycherley, Stanley Kunitz, Cressida Cowell, Michael Pollan, Irving Finkel, and Ali Sardar Jafri. After her are Gregory S. Paul, R. S. Thomas, Robert Henryson, John Stossel, Judith Hermann, and Phil Donahue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Mo Hayder ranks 588Before her are Joan Carreras i Goicoechea, John Ngugi, Santiago Ostolaza, Abdulla Shahid, Amy Chua, and Josef Hader. After her are Kevin Lima, Alvin Robertson, Emile Roemer, Horst Bulau, James LeGros, and Sergey Rodionov. Among people deceased in 2021, Mo Hayder ranks 651Before her are Antonio de la Torre, Vladimir Vysotsky, Shashikala, Aleksandr Timoshinin, Richard Lerner, and Paul Westphal. After her are Aleksandr Klepikov, Tommy Troelsen, Keith Greene, Sally Ann Howes, Johnny Isakson, and Antony Sher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mo Hayder ranks 5,888 out of 8,785Before her are Bobby Collins (1931), John Scott Russell (1808), Irving Finkel (1951), Glen Johnson (1984), Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912), and John Lloyd (1954). After her are Bobby Lennox (1943), R. S. Thomas (1913), Daley Thompson (1958), Ruth Wilson (1982), Graham Whitehead (1922), and Jimmy Dickinson (1925).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mo Hayder ranks 675Before her are Katharine Gun (1974), Dinah Craik (1826), Pippa Middleton (1983), William Wycherley (1640), Cressida Cowell (1966), and Irving Finkel (1951). After her are R. S. Thomas (1913), Brian Stableford (1948), Grant Morrison (1960), Colley Cibber (1671), Sophie Hannah (1971), and Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914).