WRITER

Arnold Bennett

1867 - 1931

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Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold Bennett has received more than 758,652 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Arnold Bennett is the 3,233rd most popular writer (down from 2,690th in 2019), the 2,346th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,054th in 2019) and the 266th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

These twain
1955
The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book
Accessible book
1911
Tales of the five towns
1928
Helen with the high hand
1912
Riceyman steps
1950
Whom God hath joined
1906

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arnold Bennett ranks 3,233 out of 7,302. Before him are Antonio Beccadelli, Gaito Gazdanov, Claudius Salmasius, Jules Barbier, Evgeny Schwartz, and John VIII of Constantinople. After him are Giosafat Barbaro, Kálmán Mikszáth, Mickey Spillane, Monteiro Lobato, Simon of Kéza, and Paul Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Arnold Bennett ranks 94. Before him are Giuseppe Morello, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, William Speirs Bruce, Prince Henri of Orléans, John Rogan, and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are George Andrew Reisner, Max Jakob Friedländer, Aleksandar Malinov, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, and Vera Yevstafievna Popova. Among people deceased in 1931, Arnold Bennett ranks 78. Before him are Bix Beiderbecke, Dionysios Kasdaglis, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Alwin Berger, Viktor Dyk, and Tommaso Tittoni. After him are Louis Billot, Harald Høffding, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Sukhdev Thapar, Wilson Bentley, and Milan Šufflay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arnold Bennett ranks 2,346 out of 8,785. Before him are William Edward Ayrton (1847), Sharon Osbourne (1952), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Harold Abrahams (1899), Richard Swinburne (1934), and Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893). After him are Cuthred of Wessex (750), Paul Johnson (1928), Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), Phil Taylor (1954), Frances Burney (1752), and Snowy White (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arnold Bennett ranks 266. Before him are Ken Robinson (1950), Robert Harris (1957), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Ephraim Chambers (1680), Hilary Mantel (1952), and Ford Madox Ford (1873). After him are Paul Johnson (1928), Frances Burney (1752), John Brunner (1934), Peter Mayle (1939), Anna Sewell (1820), and Arnold Wesker (1932).

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