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Tess Gerritsen

1953 - Today

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Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tess Gerritsen has received more than 1,030,970 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Tess Gerritsen is the 1,052nd most popular writer (down from 990th in 2019), the 1,223rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,180th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Writer.

Tess Gerritsen is most famous for her series of novels about the fictional medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tess Gerritsen ranks 1,052 out of 7,302. Before her are Emil Ludwig, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Paul Bourget, Emanuel Schikaneder, Giambattista Marino, and Henri Troyat. After her are Ján Kollár, Martin Andersen Nexø, Zhuanxu, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Ernst Barlach, and Adalbert Stifter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Tess Gerritsen ranks 49. Before her are Alfred Molina, Kitarō, Wang Yi, Lloyd Austin, Lenín Moreno, and Toomas Hendrik Ilves. After her are Cha Bum-kun, Mata Amritanandamayi, David Morse, Roberto Bolaño, Gaetano Scirea, and José María Aznar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tess Gerritsen ranks 1,223 out of 20,380. Before her are John Payne (1912), Jake LaMotta (1922), Snoop Dogg (1971), Mike Portnoy (1967), Dave Brubeck (1920), and Allen Dulles (1893). After her are Sonny Liston (1932), Izzy Stradlin (1962), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Scarlett Johansson (1984), Tyrone Power (1914), and Robert Noyce (1927).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tess Gerritsen ranks 119. Before her are Edith Wharton (1862), Noah Gordon (1926), William Gibson (1948), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), and Sam Shepard (1943). After her are Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Valerie Solanas (1936), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Michael Connelly (1956), Norman Mailer (1923), and John Grisham (1955).

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