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Beryl Bainbridge

1932 - 2010

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Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beryl Bainbridge has received more than 332,967 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Beryl Bainbridge is the 5,578th most popular writer (down from 5,006th in 2019), the 4,679th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,265th in 2019) and the 527th most popular British Writer.

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  • 330k

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  • 42.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 5,578 out of 5,755. Before her are Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Meindert DeJong, Birger Sjöberg, Jodi Picoult, Kurt Marti, and Anna Haava. After her are Christian Kracht, Roma Ryan, Madhukar, Frank Harris, Edmund Gosse, and Chaz Bono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 423. Before her are János Parti, Kurt Oppelt, Malcolm Bradbury, Sergio Caprari, Therese Zenz, and Henry Taylor. After her are Antal Bolvári, Anatoli Isayev, Kalevi Hämäläinen, Bruno Visintin, Mike Hodges, and Barbara Loden. Among people deceased in 2010, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 354. Before her are Sally Menke, Jerry Bock, Zbigniew Gut, Bohumil Němeček, Harvey Pekar, and Ted Stevens. After her are Charlie Hickcox, Joseph Kruskal, Audrey Williamson, He Pingping, Isabelle Caro, and Ted Sorensen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 4,679 out of 7,765. Before her are Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Pat Fry (1964), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), Hugh Falconer (1808), and Kevin Doyle (1960). After her are Clive Bunker (1946), Roma Ryan (1950), Mark Jones (1933), David Mackenzie (1966), Edgar Syers (1863), and Edmund Gosse (1849).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 527. Before her are Andrew Davies (1936), Malcolm Bradbury (1932), Eliza Acton (1799), Thomas Hood (1799), Margaret Oliphant (1828), and Brian Moore (1921). After her are Roma Ryan (1950), Edmund Gosse (1849), Ernest Dowson (1867), John Barbour (1316), Dick King-Smith (1922), and John Skelton (1460).

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