WRITER

Alan Bennett

1934 - Today

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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter. Over his entertainment career he has received numerous awards and honours including two BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also earned an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George (1994). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Bennett has received more than 3,452,671 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alan Bennett is the 4,530th most popular writer (down from 4,252nd in 2019), the 3,243rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,155th in 2019) and the 367th most popular British Writer.

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  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The clothes they stood up in
Fiction, Middle-aged persons, Burglary
The Ransomes had been burgled. "Robbed," Mrs. Ransome said. "Burgled," Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though "burgled" was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.This swift-moving comic fable will surprise you with its concealed depths. When the sedate Ransomes return from the opera to find their Notting Hill flat stripped absolutely bare--down to the toilet paper off the roll (a hard-to-find shade of forget-me-not blue)--they face a dilemma: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly the world is full of unlimited and frightening possibility. But just as they begin adjusting to this giddy freedom, a newfound interest in sex, and a lack of comfy chairs, a surreal reversal of events causes them to question their assumptions yet again. The Ransomes' bafflement is the reader's delight. Alan Bennett's gentle but scathing wit, unerring ear for dialogue, and sense of the absurd make The Clothes They Stood Up In a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie.
2001
Telling Tales
2000
Writing home
Autobiographies, Biography, Diaries
1994
The history boys
Education, Motion picture plays, Drama
2004
Habeas corpus
Simply staged, this play introduces the Wicksteeds, a family for whom the determination to put sex and the satisfaction of the body before everything else is the ruling passion of their lives. Permissive society is taken to task in this farcical comedy in which the characters move in and out through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual encounters. As Wicksteed says, 'He whose lust lasts, lasts longest'.
1973
The History Boys
Drama, Fiction
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.The History Boys premiered at the National in May 2004.
2004

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alan Bennett ranks 4,530 out of 7,302. Before him are Elisabetta Dami, Leopold Andrian, Quim Monzó, Timothy Zahn, Wen Yiduo, and Norman Spinrad. After him are Gyula Illyés, Jens Bjørneboe, Juan Montalvo, M. Ageyev, Alexander Bek, and Georges Courteline.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Alan Bennett ranks 320. Before him are Lew Hoad, Turan Dursun, Roy Kerr, Roger Norrington, Lyudmila Shevtsova, and Tomás Eloy Martínez. After him are Kamala Surayya, Tonina Torrielli, Jayakanthan, Amiri Baraka, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, and Elżbieta Krzesińska.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Bennett ranks 3,243 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341), John Benbow (1653), Wilfrid (634), Jeremy Thorpe (1929), Diana Dors (1931), and Richard O'Brien (1942). After him are Martin McGuinness (1950), Jonathan Wild (1683), Andy Goldsworthy (1956), Davy Jones (1945), Lady Byron (1792), and Dick Turpin (1705).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alan Bennett ranks 367. Before him are Arthur Ransome (1884), Joe Abercrombie (1974), Robert Greene (1558), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Walter Savage Landor (1775), and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810). After him are Isaac Watts (1674), George Chapman (1559), Lydia Becker (1827), Gilbert Adair (1944), Ronald Knox (1888), and W. S. Gilbert (1836).

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