WRITER

Peter Mayle

1939 - 2018

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Peter Mayle ( "mail"; 14 June 1939 – 18 January 2018) was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Mayle has received more than 473,319 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Mayle is the 3,309th most popular writer (down from 2,916th in 2019), the 2,381st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,195th in 2019) and the 270th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Where Did I Come From?
Human reproduction, Reproduction, Juvenile literature
Describes the reproductive process from intercourse to birth.
1975
A good year
English fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs
2004
A year in Provence
Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Description and travel
1989
Hotel Pastis
Fiction, Hotelkeepers in fiction, Country life
1993
Encore Provence
Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Biography & Autobiography
1992
Toujours Provence
Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Provence (france), social life and customs
1991

Page views of Peter Mayles by language

Over the past year Peter Mayle has had the most page views in the with 50,179 views, followed by German (10,107), and French (9,985). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (60.87%), Hebrew (25.04%), and Finnish (20.24%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Mayle ranks 3,309 out of 7,302. Before him are Cecil Bødker, Angel Wagenstein, Abdullah Goran, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Salvador Espriu, and Bernard-Marie Koltès. After him are Anna Sewell, Bernhard Grzimek, Nossis, Alexander Dukhnovych, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Ibn Warraq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Mayle ranks 247. Before him are Veniamin Soldatenko, Michael Gazzaniga, Yury Glazkov, Vladimir Ivashov, John Pilger, and Charles Jencks. After him are Patrick Wayne, Roy Buchanan, Ljiljana Petrović, Gila Almagor, Ileana Cotrubaș, and Stephen Cook. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Mayle ranks 197. Before him are Levko Lukianenko, Ramón Chao, Frank Carlucci, James Karen, Stanislav Govorukhin, and Evelyn Berezin. After him are John Mahoney, Reinhard Hardegen, Henri Namphy, Siegfried Rauch, Leila Abashidze, and Leonid Kadeniuk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mayle ranks 2,381 out of 8,785. Before him are Ray Cooney (1932), Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), and Jamie Vardy (1987). After him are Anna Sewell (1820), Mary McAleese (1951), Henry Ireton (1611), Herbert James Draper (1863), John Mahoney (1940), and Thomas Blake Glover (1838).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Mayle ranks 270. Before him are Hilary Mantel (1952), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Arnold Bennett (1867), Paul Johnson (1928), Frances Burney (1752), and John Brunner (1934). After him are Anna Sewell (1820), Arnold Wesker (1932), David Crystal (1941), John Ford (1586), Vera Brittain (1893), and William Hope Hodgson (1877).

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