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Winston Graham

1908 - 2003

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Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winston Graham has received more than 740,306 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Winston Graham is the 3,069th most popular writer (down from 2,575th in 2019), the 2,282nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,949th in 2019) and the 265th most popular British Writer.

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  • 740k

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  • 51.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Winston Graham ranks 3,069 out of 5,755Before him are Jack Higgins, Glen A. Larson, Torben Ulrich, Pierre Souvestre, Abdulah Sidran, and Ioan Slavici. After him are Hierocles of Alexandria, Yulian Semyonov, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Jorge Guillén, and Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Winston Graham ranks 157Before him are Ho Jong-suk, Nikolay Nosov, Mario Evaristo, Boris Polevoy, Bengt Strömgren, and Luis Regueiro. After him are Leo Sternbach, René Daumal, Elliott Carter, Gideon Ståhlberg, Edoardo Amaldi, and Olga Benário Prestes. Among people deceased in 2003, Winston Graham ranks 141Before him are Milton George Henschel, Luděk Pachman, Kir Bulychev, Augusto Monterroso, Paul Janssen, and Nello Pagani. After him are Sam Phillips, Hope Lange, Lothar Emmerich, Lewis A. Coser, Martha Chase, and Karl Kling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Winston Graham ranks 2,282 out of 7,765Before him are Richard Hammond (1969), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), David Gill (1843), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), William Curtis (1746), and Jack Higgins (1929). After him are Natalie Dormer (1982), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Patrick Troughton (1920), Richard Williamson (1940), Colin Clark (1905), and John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Winston Graham ranks 265Before him are Nick Hornby (1957), Anthony Horowitz (1955), William Smith (1813), Dodie Smith (1896), Richard Hammond (1969), and Jack Higgins (1929). After him are John Stott (1921), Wilfred Owen (1893), John Evelyn (1620), Charles Kingsley (1819), Branwell Brontë (1817), and Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893).