WRITER

Ngaio Marsh

1895 - 1982

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Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh ( NY-oh; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand writer. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ngaio Marsh has received more than 823,219 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ngaio Marsh is the 4,113th most popular writer (down from 2,630th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 26th in 2019) and the 4th most popular New Zealander Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ngaio Marsh ranks 4,113 out of 7,302. Before her are Berta Zuckerkandl, Marietta Shaginyan, Marie-Claire Blais, Mona Simpson, Johann Georg von Hahn, and Lisa Tetzner. After her are Ō no Yasumaro, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Cemal Süreya, Ken Adam, Maximilian Harden, and Peter Cheyney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ngaio Marsh ranks 187. Before her are Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Ayna Sultanova, Louis Raymond, Giovanni Brunero, August Emil Fieldorf, and Carl Westergren. After her are John J. McCloy, Henry Gunther, Paul Neményi, Harold Hotelling, Giuseppe Bottai, and John Diefenbaker. Among people deceased in 1982, Ngaio Marsh ranks 162. Before her are Fritz Laband, Adoniran Barbosa, Giorgio Abetti, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Marietta Shaginyan, and René Dubos. After her are Seraphim Rose, Alexandre Alexeieff, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Jimmy McGrory, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, and Juan O'Gorman.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Ngaio Marsh ranks 41 out of 303. Before her are Clive Revill (1930), Taika Waititi (1975), Janet Frame (1924), Gary Thain (1948), Rob Hall (1961), and Ronald Syme (1903). After her are Keith Urban (1967), Jacinda Ardern (1980), William Phillips (1914), Roy Kerr (1934), Anthony Wilding (1883), and Antony Starr (1975).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Ngaio Marsh ranks 4. Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Richard Curtis (1956), and Janet Frame (1924). After her are Hugh Walpole (1884), Margaret Mahy (1936), Keri Hulme (1947), Anthony McCarten (1961), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).

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