WRITER

Bernard Cornwell

1944 - Today

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Bernard Cornwell (born 23 February 1944) is a British-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Cornwell has received more than 2,706,454 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Bernard Cornwell is the 1,104th most popular writer (down from 1,002nd in 2019), the 839th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 797th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular British Writer.

Bernard Cornwell is most famous for his Sharpe series, a series of novels about a British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Copperhead
1994
Sharpe's gold
1981
Sharpe's Fortress
1999
Stonehenge
1999
Sharpe's Tiger
1997

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernard Cornwell ranks 1,104 out of 7,302. Before him are Cees Nooteboom, Yosano Akiko, John William Polidori, Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, and Bhāsa. After him are Robert Merle, Hélène Cixous, Claudius Aelianus, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Camilla Collett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Bernard Cornwell ranks 93. Before him are Ian McDiarmid, Donna Haraway, Erwin Neher, Karin Schubert, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, and Mairead Maguire. After him are Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nana Akufo-Addo, Killing of Peter Fechter, Mordechai Spiegler, Keith Emerson, and Jeroen Krabbé.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell ranks 839 out of 8,785. Before him are David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), William Bateson (1861), John William Polidori (1795), and Alan Parsons (1948). After him are Anthony James Leggett (1938), Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Imelda Staunton (1956), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), and Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell ranks 103. Before him are Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), John Berger (1926), Dylan Thomas (1914), E. M. Forster (1879), and John William Polidori (1795). After him are Edmund Spenser (1552), Samuel Butler (1612), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James Anderson (1680), and David Irving (1938).

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