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Ngaio Marsh

1895 - 1982

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Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh (; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.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 753,503 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Ngaio Marsh is the 2,638th most popular writer (down from 2,392nd in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular New Zealander Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

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  • 52.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ngaio Marsh ranks 2,638 out of 5,755Before her are Lucía Sánchez Saornil, May Ziade, Shulamith Firestone, Joseph Delaney, Ibn Kemal, and Esaias Tegnér. After her are Naoya Shiga, Avetik Isahakyan, Liviu Rebreanu, László Krasznahorkai, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and U. R. Ananthamurthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ngaio Marsh ranks 128Before her are John Gilbert, René Mayer, Jacques Brugnon, Roza Eskenazi, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Xu Beihong. After her are Trifko Grabež, Carl Lutz, Rudolph Minkowski, William Tubman, Fulton J. Sheen, and Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah. Among people deceased in 1982, Ngaio Marsh ranks 106Before her are Anatoly Solonitsyn, Jakov Gotovac, Anandamayi Ma, Virginia Hall, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, and Eduard Tubin. After her are John Cheever, Helene Deutsch, Abba P. Lerner, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Christian Ferras, and Gábor Szabó.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Ngaio Marsh ranks 26 out of 248Before her are Karl Urban (1972), Nancy Wake (1912), Alan Dale (1947), Temuera Morrison (1960), Manu Bennett (1969), and Marton Csokas (1966). After her are Graham McRae (1940), Rob Hall (1961), Richard Curtis (1956), Andrew Niccol (1964), Janet Frame (1924), and Cliff Curtis (1968).

Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Ngaio Marsh ranks 2Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888). After her are Richard Curtis (1956), Janet Frame (1924), Keri Hulme (1947), Margaret Mahy (1936), Hugh Walpole (1884), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).