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Christopher Isherwood

1904 - 1986

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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Isherwood has received more than 1,537,116 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Christopher Isherwood is the 1,813th most popular writer (up from 1,886th in 2019), the 1,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,469th in 2019) and the 157th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christopher Isherwood ranks 1,813 out of 5,755. Before him are Cornell Woolrich, Thomas Merton, Guido Adler, Ludwig Börne, Valery Bryusov, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After him are Antonio Skármeta, José de Acosta, Notker the Stammerer, Hjalmar Söderberg, Nicanor Parra, and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Christopher Isherwood ranks 94. Before him are Felix Nussbaum, Oskar R. Lange, Deng Yingchao, Edmond Hamilton, María Zambrano, and José Antonio Aguirre. After him are Heinz Jost, Mihai Antonescu, Jacques Tourneur, Edmund Veesenmayer, Emilio Fernández, and Karl Ernst. Among people deceased in 1986, Christopher Isherwood ranks 77. Before him are Lyudmila Rudenko, Gia Carangi, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Bernard Malamud, Elio de Angelis, and Alexandre Tansman. After him are Thierry Sabine, Ferdinand Daučík, Aleksandr Akimov, Pierre Fournier, Emilio Fernández, and Nicholas Kaldor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Isherwood ranks 1,426 out of 7,765. Before him are Frederick Delius (1862), Derek Jarman (1942), Malcolm McLaren (1946), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Greg Lake (1947), and Michael Scot (1175). After him are Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Ælle of Sussex (500), David Purley (1945), Robert Shaw (1927), and Patrick Macnee (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Isherwood ranks 157. Before him are Aphra Behn (1640), Anne Perry (1938), Hugh Lofting (1886), William Caxton (1422), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), and Brian Aldiss (1925). After him are Lucinda Riley (1965), Anthony Trollope (1815), George MacDonald (1824), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), Sister Nivedita (1867), and Vita Sackville-West (1892).

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