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Peter Mayle

1939 - 2018

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Peter Mayle ( "mail"; 14 June 1939 – 18 January 2018) was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Mayle is the 3,795th most popular writer (down from 3,309th in 2019), the 3,002nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,381st in 2019) and the 343rd most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Mayle ranks 3,795 out of 7,302. Before him are Gunter d'Alquen, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Auguste Barbier, Merab Kostava, and Donald Barthelme. After him are Anton Delvig, Irakli Abashidze, Marianne Moore, Laurens van der Post, Ari Behn, and Farrukhi Sistani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Mayle ranks 293. Before him are Tom Thabane, Merab Kostava, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Janusz Gajos, Ljiljana Petrović, and Charles Jencks. After him are Mike Castle, Roy Buchanan, James Galway, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Renate Boy, and Marie-Claire Blais. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Mayle ranks 237. Before him are Dobri Dobrev, Barbara Harris, Eunice Gayson, Cecil Taylor, Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, and Joseph Joffo. After him are Durward Knowles, Anneke Grönloh, Rolf Hoppe, Thomas S. Monson, Gianfranco Parolini, and Jennifer Welles.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mayle ranks 3,003 out of 8,785. Before him are Norman McLaren (1914), Eleanor of Scotland (1433), Maryam d'Abo (1960), Ellen Terry (1847), Samuel Clarke (1675), and Anthony Dawson (1916). After him are John Richardson (1787), Naveen Andrews (1969), Shaun Murphy (1982), Minnie Driver (1970), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), and Frederick Scott Archer (1813).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Mayle ranks 343. Before him are Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Anthony Hope (1863), Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), Peter Cheyney (1896), John Ford (1586), and Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915). After him are Nancy Mitford (1904), Hilary Mantel (1952), Paul Johnson (1928), Graham Hancock (1950), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), and Richard Hammond (1969).

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