WRITER

William Moulton Marston

1893 - 1947

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William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (), was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Moulton Marston has received more than 3,406,548 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. William Moulton Marston is the 1,856th most popular writer (up from 2,046th in 2019), the 2,340th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,685th in 2019) and the 207th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

F.F. Proctor, vaudeville pioneer
Vaudeville, Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Wonder Woman
Comic books, strips
Emotions of normal people
Psychometrics
Wonder Woman Archives, Vol. 2
Wonder Woman Archives, Vol. 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Moulton Marston ranks 1,856 out of 7,302Before him are Mustafa Balel, Cesare Zavattini, Per Wahlöö, Zinaida Gippius, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and Anne Sexton. After him are Gurju Khatun, Zeki Müren, Théodore de Banville, Isaeus, Zbigniew Herbert, and Stanisław Przybyszewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, William Moulton Marston ranks 82Before him are Carl Værnet, Dorothy Parker, Dean Acheson, Henry Murray, Armand Călinescu, and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz. After him are Clark Ashton Smith, Alexander Korda, Ivan Panfilov, Aarre Merikanto, Miloš Crnjanski, and Władysław Strzemiński. Among people deceased in 1947, William Moulton Marston ranks 75Before him are Arthur Machen, W. I. Thomas, Ludwig Fischer, Paul P. Harris, Helmuth von Pannwitz, and Heinrich Schwarz. After him are Lucjan Żeligowski, Wolfgang Borchert, Grace Moore, Victor Goldschmidt, Friedrich Paschen, and Karol Świerczewski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Moulton Marston ranks 2,340 out of 20,380Before him are Walker Evans (1903), Irving Penn (1917), Jerome Powell (1953), Robert Ballard (1942), William F. Sharpe (1934), and Justin Timberlake (1981). After him are Danny Kaye (1911), Allison Janney (1959), Nancy Allen (1950), Bridget Fonda (1964), Frank Stallone (1950), and Bess Truman (1885).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William Moulton Marston ranks 207Before him are Agnes Smedley (1892), Frederik Pohl (1919), Stephen Crane (1871), Rick Riordan (1964), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), and Anne Sexton (1928). After him are Paul Goodman (1911), James Ellroy (1948), Johnston McCulley (1883), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Shirley Jackson (1916), and Nora Ephron (1941).