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Edwin Morgan

1920 - 2010

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Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010) was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Morgan has received more than 16,366 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Morgan is the 6,985th most popular writer (down from 6,205th in 2019), the 6,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,930th in 2019) and the 731st most popular British Writer.

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  • 17

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  • 3.54

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Notable Works

Bank Shot
Fiction in English, Criminals, Dortmunder (Fictitious character)
Instead of robbing a bank, Dortmunder tries to steal the whole building. Encyclopedias are heavy, and John Dortmunder is sick of carrying them. While in between jobs, the persistent heist-planner is working an encyclopedia-selling scam that's about to blow up in his face. The cops are on their way when his friend Kelp pulls up in a stolen Oldsmobile, offering a quick escape from the law and a job that's too insane to turn down. Kelp's nephew is an FBI washout who's addicted to old-time pulp novels and adventure stories. He tried being a cop, and now he wants to be a ro.
The score
Fiction, Parker (Fictitious character), Criminals
The fifth Parker novel has the main character planning a score that involves a dozen professional crooks ready to take over a rich, remote North Dakota town.
The Black Ice Score (Allison & Busby American Crime Series)
Fiction, Criminals, Parker (Fictitious character)
Emissaries from a small African nation ask Parker to help them steal back half of their country's wealth in diamonds.
The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback)
Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Parker (fictitious character : stark), fiction
You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack. They're thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They're pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them. If you're planning a job, you want him in. Tough, smart, hardworking, and relentlessly focused on his trade, he is the heister's heister, the robber's robber, the heavy's heavy. You don't want to cross him, and you don't want to get in his way, because he'll stop at nothing to get what he's after. Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose-style—and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency—Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover—and become addicted to. In The Hunter, the first volume in the series, Parker roars into New York City, seeking revenge on the woman who betrayed him and on the man who took his money, stealing and scamming his way to redemption."Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible."—Washington Post Book World "Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you'll want on that desert island."—Lawrence Block
Drowned hopes
Fiction, Ex-convicts in fiction, Ex-convicts
Tom Jimson, the burglar has $700,000 stashed away in a valley town, which has been converted into a reservoir, by the state of New York. Now, the money lies fifty feet below water and the only way in which Jim wants to retrieve it is to blow up the dam. With the fate of nine hundred people at stake, it falls on John Dortmunder to formulate an alternate plan for retrieving the loot. And, as each attempt by Dortmunder fails, Tom's dynamite finger gets itchier...and itchier.
The hot rock
Fiction, Criminals, Dortmunder (Fictitious character)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edwin Morgan ranks 6,985 out of 7,302Before him are Conrad Richter, Delia Grigore, J. Hillis Miller, Zona Gale, Arabella Kiesbauer, and Polina Zherebtsova. After him are Scott Smith, Kossi Efoui, Aravind Adiga, Ruth Ozeki, Dima Khatib, and Robert Olen Butler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Edwin Morgan ranks 465Before him are Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Constance Moore, Reg Harris, Little Jimmy Dickens, Jerry Maren, and Ram Swarup. After him are Lassie Lou Ahern, Gene Nelson, and David Brinkley. Among people deceased in 2010, Edwin Morgan ranks 490Before him are Ruth Park, Frances Reid, Aleksander Szczygło, Fatima Meer, Yvette Vickers, and Wayne Collett. After him are William B. Saxbe, Ronnie Clayton, Andrew Koenig, Antonio Pettigrew, Lucille Clifton, and Natalia Lavrova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Morgan ranks 6,671 out of 8,785Before him are Ian Woosnam (1958), Beryl Reid (1919), Burial (2000), Eddie Clamp (1934), Maurice Setters (1936), and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950). After him are Hallucinogen (1971), Alan Newton (1931), Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham (1909), Wade Barrett (1980), Richard Ayoade (1977), and Tomás Ó Fiaich (1923).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edwin Morgan ranks 731Before him are Tom Rob Smith (1979), Jo Walton (1964), Andrea Levy (1956), Dennis Potter (1935), Anna Burns (1962), and Alice Oseman (1994). After him are Ken MacLeod (1954), Helen Dunmore (1952), Terry Nation (1930), Frances Hardinge (1973), Charlotte Roche (1978), and Sophie Dahl (1977).