WRITER

Anne Fine

1947 - Today

Anne Fine

Anne Fine OBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer. Although best known for children's books, she also writes for adults. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was appointed an OBE in 2003.Fine has written more than seventy children's books, including two winners of the annual Carnegie Medal and three highly commended runners-up. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Fine has received more than 283,223 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Anne Fine is the 6,031st most popular writer (down from 5,492nd in 2019), the 4,898th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,538th in 2019) and the 548th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

280k
Page Views (PV)
43.77
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
3.11
Effective Languages (L*)
2.74
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Madame Doubtfire

Rol sexual, Young Adult Fiction, Divorcio

Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and fro between their volatile mother, Miranda, and Daniel, their out-of-work actor father. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will supervise the children after school - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This is a bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book.

1992

The Book of the Banshee

Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Brothers and sisters

Will Flowers doesn't understand what could have happened. His sister, Estelle, used to be really cool. She was quiet, responsible, and most times you'd never even know she was around(which was the cool part). But lately, Estelle has been acting totally weird - to everyone. All she does is get mad and yell. She yells at Mom. She yells at Dad. She even yells at little Muffy. But mostly she yells at Will. And when Estelle yells, everyone listens! Will thinks Estelle is just going through a weird stage, but what if she stays this way - FOREVER?

1991

The Tulip Touch

Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling the most awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie. Natalie finds Tulip exciting, and at first she doesn't care that other people are so upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games like Stinking Mackerel and Road of Bones. It's funny to watch their reactions, and there's always the delicious fear that the two girls might be caught. But as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realizes that Tulip is going too far. Much too far.

1997

Step by Wicked Step

Divorce, Fiction, Stepfamilies

One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick — a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to have a truly wicked stepfather. But the children have stories of their own step-parents to tell — stories that have warmth and humour, as well as sadness, and a fair share of happy endings.

1995

Poor Monty

Fiction, Physicians, Mothers and sons

Although Monty's mother, tired from her long day of work as a doctor, wants to put up her feet and rest, he is not feeling well and needs her both as a mom and as a doctor.

1991

Telling Liddy

Sisters, Fiction

1998

Page views of Anne Fines by language

Over the past year Anne Fine has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 30,357 views, followed by French (4,158), and German (2,387). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (1,712.82%), Breton (61.22%), and Swedish (50.30%)