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Dodie Smith

1896 - 1990

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Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dodie Smith has received more than 644,844 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Dodie Smith is the 3,042nd most popular writer (up from 3,755th in 2019), the 2,267th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,765th in 2019) and the 262nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dodie Smith ranks 3,042 out of 5,755Before her are Samad Behrangi, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Mercedes de Acosta, Viktor Dyk, Emile Habibi, and Daniël Heinsius. After her are Glen Cook, Catherine Breillat, Robert Bly, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Charles-Louis Havas, and Arno Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Dodie Smith ranks 130Before her are Maurice De Waele, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Aimo Lahti, Jacques Duclos, Eduardo Lonardi, and Hubert Lanz. After her are Vasily Gordov, Edward Arthur Milne, Boris Podolsky, Evgeny Schwartz, Raymond Massey, and Josephine Tey. Among people deceased in 1990, Dodie Smith ranks 123Before her are Grethe Ingmann, David White, Lothar Collatz, Jorge Bolet, Paul Ariste, and Armand Hammer. After her are Luís Carlos Prestes, Juan José Arévalo, John Hansen, Gordon Jackson, Magda Julin, and Feng Youlan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dodie Smith ranks 2,267 out of 7,765Before her are Fish (1958), Richard Chancellor (1521), Cædwalla of Wessex (659), Ben Barnes (1981), Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912). After her are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891), Frederick Copleston (1907), Felicity Jones (1983), Rebecca Clarke (1886), Cary Elwes (1962), and Æthelheard of Wessex (750).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dodie Smith ranks 262Before her are Caroline Graham (1931), John Brunner (1934), Charles Lamb (1775), Nick Hornby (1957), Anthony Horowitz (1955), and William Smith (1813). After her are Richard Hammond (1969), Jack Higgins (1929), Winston Graham (1908), John Stott (1921), Wilfred Owen (1893), and John Evelyn (1620).