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A. J. Cronin

1896 - 1981

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Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. J. Cronin has received more than 1,005,260 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). A. J. Cronin is the 745th most popular writer (down from 727th in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 588th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Writer.

A. J. Cronin is most famous for his novel The Citadel, which is a fictionalized account of his own experiences as a doctor in the slums of Glasgow, Scotland.

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  • 63.75

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, A. J. Cronin ranks 745 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Boulle, Yanka Kupala, John Dos Passos, Berossus, Edmond de Goncourt, and Theognis of Megara. After him are Felix Salten, Sven Hassel, Taha Hussein, Aelius Donatus, Christa Wolf, and Clemens Brentano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, A. J. Cronin ranks 35. Before him are Ernst Udet, Anna Anderson, Erich Koch, Célestin Freinet, Howard Hawks, and John Dos Passos. After him are Helen of Greece and Denmark, Sandro Pertini, Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert. Among people deceased in 1981, A. J. Cronin ranks 25. Before him are Omar Bradley, Harold Urey, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Marcel Breuer, William Saroyan, and Samuel Barber. After him are Karl Böhm, Miroslav Krleža, Georges Brassens, Max Delbrück, Abel Gance, and Will Durant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 576 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), Malcolm Young (1953), John Davis (1550), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), and Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796). After him are Jonathan Pryce (1947), Antony Hewish (1924), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767), Richard of Cornwall (1209), Maud of Wales (1869), and Niels Kaj Jerne (1911).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 66. Before him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Oliver Sacks (1933), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Beatrix Potter (1866), and Walter Raleigh (1554). After him are Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Eleanor Marx (1855), Thomas Hardy (1840), John le Carré (1931), and Tony Buzan (1942).

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