WRITER

C. S. Forester

1899 - 1966

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Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Other works include The African Queen and The Good Shepherd, both of which were later adapted as movies. During World War II, he moved to Washington, D.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. S. Forester has received more than 1,113,644 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). C. S. Forester is the 3,195th most popular writer (down from 3,142nd in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 379th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 58.90

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, C. S. Forester ranks 3,195 out of 7,302. Before him are Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Ildefonso Falcones, Naoya Shiga, Stefanie Zweig, Sigurd Hoel, and Tiziano Terzani. After him are Anne Tyler, José Giovanni, Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, Ruben Sevak, and Caspar Barlaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, C. S. Forester ranks 154. Before him are Susannah Mushatt Jones, Suryakant Tripathi, Fritz von Opel, Joseph Guillemot, Richard Hartshorne, and Li Lisan. After him are Harold Abrahams, Robert Casadesus, Udham Singh, Gerhard von Schwerin, Josep Tarradellas, and Carlo Rosselli. Among people deceased in 1966, C. S. Forester ranks 111. Before him are Felix von Luckner, Gaspar Cassadó, Lenny Bruce, Vicente Rojo Lluch, Natacha Rambova, and Hans Hofmann. After him are Hedda Hopper, Julie Manet, Joseph A. Walker, Albrecht Brandi, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, and Gʻafur Gʻulom.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, C. S. Forester ranks 413 out of 642. Before him are Ali Sabri (1920), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), Pope Theonas of Alexandria (300), Osorkon IV (-800), Sayf al-Din Khushqadam (1413), and Al-Ashraf Kujuk (1334). After him are Haim Saban (1944), Safiya Zaghloul (1876), André Aciman (1951), Moustafa Madbouly (1966), Richard Anthony (1938), and Al-Salih Hajji (1372).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, C. S. Forester ranks 40. Before him are Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), Farag Foda (1946), Salama Moussa (1887), Georges Schehadé (1905), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), and Eutychius of Alexandria (877). After him are André Aciman (1951), Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Doria Shafik (1908), Bat Ye'or (1933), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), and Yusuf Idris (1927).

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