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David Lodge

1935 - 2025

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David John Lodge (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English author and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Lodge has received more than 72,405 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). David Lodge is the 2,559th most popular writer (down from 2,089th in 2019), the 1,887th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,633rd in 2019) and the 207th most popular British Writer.

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  • 72k

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  • 60.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Lodge ranks 2,559 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrea Dworkin, Ivan Yefremov, Catulle Mendès, Raffi, Giraut de Bornelh, and John Barth. After him are Ada Negri, Karel Jaromír Erben, Edvard Kocbek, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Ouida, and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, David Lodge ranks 159. Before him are Armando Manzanero, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Diane Ladd, Donald Arnold, Sergio Rossi, and M. Emmet Walsh. After him are Charles Grodin, Giovanni Lajolo, Rusty Schweickart, Gerd Albrecht, Rashad Khalifa, and Ken Kercheval. Among people deceased in 2025, David Lodge ranks 6. Before him are David Lynch, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Ágnes Keleti, Costas Simitis, and Oliviero Toscani. After him are Ferdi Tayfur, Robert Hübner, Fabio Cudicini, Ján Zachara, Claude Allègre, and Werner Leimgruber.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Lodge ranks 1,887 out of 8,785. Before him are W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Noël Coward (1899), William of Malmesbury (1080), William Playfair (1759), Clive Burr (1957), and Donald Crisp (1882). After him are John Smyth (1570), Ray Winstone (1957), Walter Crane (1845), Ine of Wessex (700), Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), and Ouida (1839).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, David Lodge ranks 207. Before him are Christopher Priest (1943), Richard Adams (1920), Peter Shaffer (1926), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), John Mandeville (1300), and Noël Coward (1899). After him are Ouida (1839), John Aubrey (1626), Arthur Young (1741), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Gerald Gardner (1884), and George Whitefield (1714).

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