WRITER

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 1,670,750 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Christopher Isherwood is the 2,010th most popular writer (down from 1,809th in 2019), the 1,533rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,421st in 2019) and the 163rd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christopher Isherwood ranks 2,010 out of 7,302. Before him are Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Horacio Quiroga, Saki, Caterina Albert, Izabela Czartoryska, and S. Ansky. After him are Yuan Zhen, Rudolf Rocker, Telesilla, Julien Gracq, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, and Matthieu Ricard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Christopher Isherwood ranks 98. Before him are Emilio Fernández, José Antonio Aguirre, Deng Yingchao, Arshile Gorky, Joseph M. Juran, and Mihai Antonescu. After him are Christian-Jaque, Tadao Takayama, Karl Ernst, Achille Varzi, Delmer Daves, and Nikolai Berzarin. Among people deceased in 1986, Christopher Isherwood ranks 83. Before him are Aleksandr Akimov, Hermann Gmeiner, John Bagot Glubb, Elsa Lanchester, Thierry Sabine, and Ellison Onizuka. After him are Yaroslav Stetsko, Gia Carangi, Henri Toivonen, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Mart Stam, and Phil Lynott.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Isherwood ranks 1,533 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Phillips (1887), Algernon Blackwood (1869), Kay Parker (1944), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Frederick Delius (1862), and Beorhtric of Wessex (800). After him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Robert Maynard (1684), Greg Lake (1947), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Olaf Stapledon (1886), and Ian Kershaw (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Isherwood ranks 163. Before him are Joseph Addison (1672), Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Edward Young (1683), Anthony Trollope (1815), and Robert Southey (1774). After him are Karen Armstrong (1944), Philip Kerr (1956), Clive Barker (1952), George MacDonald (1824), James Hilton (1900), and Patrick O'Brian (1914).

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