WRITER

Val McDermid

1955 - Today

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Valarie McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and his collaborators in the police department. Her work is considered to be part of a sub-genre known as Tartan Noir. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Val McDermid has received more than 1,515,428 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Val McDermid is the 4,746th most popular writer (up from 5,198th in 2019), the 3,435th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,132nd in 2019) and the 391st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Val McDermid ranks 4,746 out of 7,302. Before her are Hanna Krall, Jean Cau, Dharamvir Bharati, José María Heredia y Heredia, Henri Bosco, and Jean Tardieu. After her are Joseph Meyer, Jacqueline Susann, C. A. Rosetti, Juan de la Cueva, James Salter, and Robert Ettinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Val McDermid ranks 280. Before her are Nathan East, John Wesley Shipp, Steven Culp, Andrei Gavrilov, Ásgeir Sigurvinsson, and Galina Lukashenko. After her are Heidi Hautala, Kang Kyung-wha, Avraham Burg, Bill Condon, Jesús María Zamora, and Toshio Suzuki.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Val McDermid ranks 3,435 out of 8,785. Before her are Stanley Spencer (1891), E. L. James (1963), Peter Davison (1951), Tony Martin (1957), Gerrard Winstanley (1609), and Peter Molyneux (1959). After her are Samantha Bond (1961), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), David Lloyd (1950), John Alcott (1930), Vivian Fuchs (1908), and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Val McDermid ranks 391. Before her are Michael Frayn (1933), Edith Sitwell (1887), William Tenn (1920), Brian Lumley (1937), Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), and E. L. James (1963). After her are Edward James (1907), Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), Hannah More (1745), Robert Bolt (1924), William Martin Leake (1777), and Nicholas Evans (1950).

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