WRITER

Beryl Markham

1902 - 1986

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Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beryl Markham has received more than 1,255,428 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Beryl Markham is the 5,582nd most popular writer (down from 3,718th in 2019), the 4,280th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,730th in 2019) and the 483rd most popular British Writer.

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  • 21

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  • 3.67

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Notable Works

West with the night
Air pilots, Aviadores, Biography
A pioneer aviator's life in Africa. *From a letter to Maxwell Perkins*: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, *West with the Night*? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true. ... I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book." (Ernest Hemingway)
1942
1920
The Splendid Outcast (Pcc79)
1988
The splendid outcast
Social life and customs, Fiction
1920
The illustrated West with the night
Women air pilots, Biography
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Beryl Markham ranks 5,582 out of 7,302. Before her are Steven Millhauser, Vladimir Bogomolov, Guus Kuijer, Mikhail Svetlov, Francis Carco, and Zofka Kveder. After her are Aubrey de Grey, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Lina Morgenstern, Douglas Coupland, Madeleine L'Engle, and Luigi Galleani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Beryl Markham ranks 275. Before her are Veli Saarinen, Paavo Yrjölä, Russinho, Margaret Woodbridge, Isidoro Sota, and Antonio Maquilón. After her are Brian Aherne, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Chill Wills, Koloman Sokol, Myrtle Cook, and Ann Harding. Among people deceased in 1986, Beryl Markham ranks 243. Before her are Bert Schneider, Jackson Scholz, Goffredo Parise, Anton Janda, Arvid Thörn, and Pepper Adams. After her are Brian Aherne, Snorri Hjartarson, Yukiko Okada, Harry Benjamin, Sulo Bärlund, and Forrest Tucker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Beryl Markham ranks 4,280 out of 8,785. Before her are Simon West (1961), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Peter Hook (1956), Jamie Hewlett (1968), Oliver Leese (1894), and John Ainsworth-Davis (1895). After her are David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (1378), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), Edward Alleyn (1566), Steve Clark (1960), and Terry George (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Beryl Markham ranks 483. Before her are Jacqueline Wilson (1945), Ramsey Campbell (1946), Michael Grant (1914), Roger Ascham (1515), Paula Yates (1959), and Susanna Clarke (1959). After her are Aubrey de Grey (1963), George Lillo (1691), Mark Haddon (1962), Terence Rattigan (1911), John Gardner (1926), and Richard D. Ryder (1940).

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