WRITER

Brian Moore

1921 - 1999

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Brian Moore ( bree-AN; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Moore has received more than 50,751 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Moore is the 6,310th most popular writer (down from 5,546th in 2019), the 5,400th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,638th in 2019) and the 614th most popular British Writer.

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  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The doctor's wife
Fiction in English, Fiction, Physicians' spouses
1976
The emperor of ice-cream
Fiction, Young men, World War, 1939-1945
1965
The lonely passion of Judith Hearne
Single women, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
1955
I am Mary Dunne
Fiction, Women, Man-woman relationships
1966
The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
Fiction, Irish, Young women
1981
The luck of Ginger Coffey
Fiction, Irish, Immigrants
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Brian Moore ranks 6,310 out of 7,302. Before him are Wayne C. Booth, Frances Harper, John Toll, William H. Gass, Jean Stafford, and Humphrey Carpenter. After him are Alastair Reynolds, Dick King-Smith, Sandra Cisneros, Bill Bright, Kari Hotakainen, and Roddy Doyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Brian Moore ranks 439. Before him are Gilbert Stork, Marilyn Maxwell, Sheb Wooley, Bobby Wanzer, Alan Hale Jr., and Wayne C. Booth. After him are Bill Bright, Muriel Pavlow, Richard Wilbur, Horace Gould, Andrew M. Gleason, and Dinny Pails. Among people deceased in 1999, Brian Moore ranks 297. Before him are Jackson C. Frank, John Cannon, Josef Doležal, Hillary Brooke, Naomi Mitchison, and Diane Foster. After him are Elliot Richardson, Clayton Moore, Big L, Laurie Scott, Lagumot Harris, and Guy Tunmer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Moore ranks 5,400 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul Mariner (1953), Joanna Baillie (1762), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Roger Taylor (1941), Jack Fairman (1913), and Rhodri Morgan (1939). After him are Edwyn Collins (1959), Bukayo Saka (2001), Cecil Sharp (1859), Alastair Reynolds (1966), Dick King-Smith (1922), and Margaret Wycherly (1881).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Brian Moore ranks 614. Before him are Polly Samson (1962), Naomi Mitchison (1897), Lascelles Abercrombie (1881), Caryl Churchill (1938), Joanna Baillie (1762), and Humphrey Carpenter (1946). After him are Alastair Reynolds (1966), Dick King-Smith (1922), Thomas Warton (1728), Andrew Davies (1936), Henry Vaughan (1621), and William Roscoe (1753).

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