WRITER

Winston Churchill

1871 - 1947

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winston Churchill has received more than 63,882,386 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Winston Churchill is the 5,968th most popular writer (down from 5,398th in 2019), the 9,609th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,815th in 2019) and the 726th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

64M
Page Views (PV)
44.12
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
2.82
Effective Languages (L*)
2.96
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A history of the English-speaking peoples

History, Juvenile literature, Heroes

Sketches of sixteen of Churchill's favorite historical characters selected from his four-volume A history of the English-speaking Peoples, followed by a profile of Sir Winston drawn from autobiographical writings and speeches.

1956

The Second World War

Personal narratives, British, British Personal narratives, Great Britain

Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It is no wonder that when it was announced that he would write the history of the Second World War, there arose throughout the world an interest and excitement caused by no other publication of this century. The six volumes of The Second World War fulfilled the highest expectations with which they were awaited. But the great length of the work and its necessary cost has prevented many thousands from reading and owning this great history. Now the heart of the work appears in one volume. The abbreviation has been made with the utmost skill, resulting in a unified, dramatic story of the world's greatest ordeal. Perhaps the glory of Sir Winston's prose is even heigtened by the omission of details necessary for the record but of less interest to the general reader. Memoirs of the Second World War will be read and treasured by a vast number of people who do not yet know this drama written imperishably by one of its greatest actors. - Jacket flap.

1948

A Modern Chronicle

1904

The inside of the cup

Fiction, Classic Literature

The number-one bestseller in 1913, The Inside of the Cup is a fascinating novel dealing with New England politics. It paved the way for social criticism in novels and is representative of nineteenth-century American thought.

1913

Richard Carvel

History, Fiction, Maryland

1899

The Crisis

Classic Literature, Drama, Fiction

"The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the U.S. Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family."--Wikipedia

1901

Page views of Winston Churchills by language

Over the past year Winston Churchill has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 5,025,422 views, followed by Russian (2,025), and German (1,634). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (55.95%), Russian (41.21%), and Malagasy (27.98%)