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E. W. Hornung

1866 - 1921

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Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. W. Hornung has received more than 199,398 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. E. W. Hornung is the 6,156th most popular writer (down from 5,522nd in 2019), the 5,107th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,591st in 2019) and the 576th most popular British Writer.

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  • 200k

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  • 50.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, E. W. Hornung ranks 6,156 out of 7,302. Before him are Patrick Grainville, Mieko Kawakami, Walker Percy, Maja Bošković-Stulli, John Addington Symonds, and Jaime Bayly. After him are Daniel Kehlmann, Ernest Lehman, Irena Krzywicka, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Olson, and Henry Jenkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, E. W. Hornung ranks 151. Before him are Hiram Johnson, James Ewing, David Samanez Ocampo, François Gagnepain, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, and Alice Austen. After him are Saliamonas Banaitis, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, Eugène Grisot, and Jimmy Ross. Among people deceased in 1921, E. W. Hornung ranks 126. Before him are Julius von Hann, Justiniano Borgoño, Emily Davies, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Léon Moreaux, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell. After him are Raymond Thorne, Henry Hyndman, Mary Watson Whitney, P. B. S. Pinchback, John Burroughs, and Charles B. Cory.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. W. Hornung ranks 5,107 out of 8,785. Before him are Sam Heughan (1980), Rod Temperton (1949), Sophie Thompson (1962), Peter Wright (1970), Heather Mills (1968), and Charles Sheffield (1935). After him are Mark Jones (1933), Benjamin Vulliamy (1747), Hugh Huxley (1924), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), Josephine Tewson (1931), and George Alexander Macfarren (1813).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, E. W. Hornung ranks 576. Before him are Dannie Abse (1923), Ann Cleeves (1954), Reginald Hill (1936), Bernardine Evaristo (1959), J. G. Farrell (1935), and John Addington Symonds (1840). After him are Joyce Cary (1888), Philip Massinger (1583), Paul Scott (1920), Michael Drayton (1563), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), and Alan Hollinghurst (1954).

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