WRITER

Enid Blyton

1897 - 1968

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Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have been translated into ninety languages. As at June 2019, Blyton held the 4th place for the most translated author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enid Blyton has received more than 4,830,612 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Enid Blyton is the 582nd most popular writer (down from 437th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 339th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Writer.

Enid Blyton is most famous for her series of children's books, including the Famous Five, Secret Seven, and Noddy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Enid Blyton ranks 582 out of 7,302. Before her are James Baldwin, Ninon de l'Enclos, Władysław Reymont, Cassiodorus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Osip Mandelstam. After her are Abai Qunanbaiuly, Samuel Butler, Allen Ginsberg, Su Shi, Wang Wei, and Vasubandhu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Enid Blyton ranks 27. Before her are Frank Capra, Kurt Schuschnigg, Pola Negri, Thích Quảng Đức, Odd Hassel, and Yun Posun. After her are Paul Delvaux, Kurt Daluege, Karl Gebhardt, Ivan Bagramyan, Otto Strasser, and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. Among people deceased in 1968, Enid Blyton ranks 20. Before her are George Gamow, Karl Barth, Salvatore Quasimodo, Georg von Küchler, Erwin Panofsky, and Henry Hallett Dale. After her are Carl Theodor Dreyer, Corneille Heymans, Jim Clark, Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, and Pitirim Sorokin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Enid Blyton ranks 420 out of 8,785. Before her are Robert Plant (1948), Thomas Cook (1808), Anne Neville (1456), Bobby Moore (1941), Christopher Wren (1632), and William Godwin (1756). After her are Samuel Butler (1835), Tristan (535), Fred Hoyle (1915), John Everett Millais (1829), John Barry (1933), and Bartholomew Roberts (1682).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Enid Blyton ranks 47. Before her are Anthony Burgess (1917), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Harold Pinter (1930), Robert Burns (1759), George Eliot (1819), and A. A. Milne (1882). After her are Samuel Butler (1835), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Donne (1572), J. M. Barrie (1860), Samuel Johnson (1709), and Daphne du Maurier (1907).

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