WRITER

P. L. Travers

1899 - 1996

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Pamela Lyndon Travers ( TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. L. Travers has received more than 5,817,646 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). P. L. Travers is the 1,119th most popular writer (up from 1,165th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Australia (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Writer.

P. L. Travers is most famous for her children's novel, "Mary Poppins."

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, P. L. Travers ranks 1,119 out of 7,302. Before her are Ellen Key, Yakub Kolas, Henri Michaux, Bernardino de Sahagún, Zenodotus, and Ernst Hanfstaengl. After her are Alain-Fournier, Norman Mailer, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Agathon, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, and Lü Dongbin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, P. L. Travers ranks 52. Before her are James Cagney, Franz Jonas, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Georges Auric, Charles Boyer, and Henri Michaux. After her are Louis Hjelmslev, Lao She, Lev Kuleshov, Andrei Platonov, Alma Reville, and Fritz Bayerlein. Among people deceased in 1996, P. L. Travers ranks 47. Before her are Shūsaku Endō, Claudette Colbert, Georges Duby, Alain Poher, Fujiko Fujio, and Timothy Leary. After her are Ernesto Geisel, Nevill Francis Mott, Martin Balsam, George Davis Snell, Marianne Bachmeier, and František Plánička.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, P. L. Travers ranks 31 out of 1,143. Before her are V. Gordon Childe (1892), Robin Warren (1937), Peter Singer (1946), Macfarlane Burnet (1899), Steve Irwin (1962), and John Cornforth (1917). After her are Lionel Logue (1880), Ned Kelly (1855), Tamam Shud case (1903), John Noble (1948), Kylie Minogue (1968), and Joan Sutherland (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, P. L. Travers ranks 2. Before her are Colleen McCullough (1937). After her are James Clavell (1921), Rhonda Byrne (1945), Thomas Keneally (1935), Annette Kellermann (1887), Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), Germaine Greer (1939), Banjo Paterson (1864), and John Flanagan (1944).

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