WRITER

Morgan Robertson

1861 - 1915

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Morgan Robertson (died March 24, 1915) was an American author of short stories and novels, and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morgan Robertson has received more than 343,324 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Morgan Robertson is the 3,352nd most popular writer (down from 2,178th in 2019), the 4,260th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,831st in 2019) and the 355th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Spun-Yarn
1900
Futility
1898
The wreck of the Titan
titanic, futility, wreck of the titan
The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility (originally called Futility) is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the fictional ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic, which sank fourteen years later. Following the sinking of the Titanic, the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage.
1914
Sinful Peck
1903
Modern Short Stories
banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica
The adventures of Simon and Susanna / Joel Chandler Harris The crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge The soul of the great bell / Lafcadio Hearn The ten trails / Ernest Thompson Seton Where love is, there God is also / Count Leo Tolstoi Wood-ladies / Perceval Gibbon On the fever ship / Richard Harding Davis A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier Moti Guj-Mutineer / Rudyard Kipling Gulliver the great / Walter A. Dyer Sonny's schoolin' / Ruth McEnery Stuart Her first horse show / David Gray My husband's book / James Matthew Barrie War / Jack London The battle of the monsters / Morgan Robertson A dilemma / S. Weir Mitchell [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) / A. Conan Doyle One hundred in the dark / Owen Johnson A retrieved reformation / O. Henry Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome A fight with death / Ian Maclaren The Dan-nan-Ron / Fiona Macleod.
1918
Masters of men
United States, United States. Navy, Fiction
1901

Page views of Morgan Robertsons by language

Over the past year Morgan Robertson has had the most page views in the with 54,088 views, followed by Spanish (12,104), and Russian (8,090). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (147.11%), Galician (84.12%), and English (78.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Morgan Robertson ranks 3,352 out of 7,302. Before him are Isaac Casaubon, Cornelis Tromp, Valerius Antias, John Ford, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Eysteinn Erlendsson. After him are Bernardo Guimarães, Carmen Laforet, Rhianus, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Al-A'sha, and Rose Wilder Lane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Morgan Robertson ranks 89. Before him are Prafulla Chandra Ray, Karl Groos, Paul Ranson, Nasreddine Dinet, Curt von Bardeleben, and Jacques-Émile Blanche. After him are Saovabha Phongsri, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, Robert T. A. Innes, József Rippl-Rónai, Makino Nobuaki, and Lucien Simon. Among people deceased in 1915, Morgan Robertson ranks 68. Before him are Adolphe Pégoud, Arthur Hughes, Eugène Jansson, Serafino Vannutelli, Ruben Sevak, and Emil Rathenau. After him are Stojan Novaković, Fanny Crosby, Booker T. Washington, Pascual Orozco, Louis Pergaud, and Daniel Giraud Elliot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Morgan Robertson ranks 4,260 out of 20,380. Before him are Jordan Rudess (1956), Beatrice Straight (1914), James Gunn (1966), Eric Carmen (1949), Roy Rogers (1911), and Chris Hardwick (1971). After him are Connie Booth (1944), Wallace Beery (1885), Richie Havens (1941), Joseph A. Walker (1921), William Forsythe (1949), and Clara Barton (1821).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Morgan Robertson ranks 355. Before him are Edward Bellamy (1850), Gregory Benford (1941), Willa Cather (1873), Wallace Stevens (1879), Douglas Preston (1956), and Robert McKee (1941). After him are Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Fanny Crosby (1820), Spencer Johnson (1938), David Eddings (1931), Joyce Meyer (1943), and Booker T. Washington (1856).

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