WRITER

Eric Knight

1897 - 1943

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Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Knight has received more than 155,245 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eric Knight is the 2,252nd most popular writer (down from 1,988th in 2019), the 1,679th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,574th in 2019) and the 179th most popular British Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 61.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eric Knight ranks 2,252 out of 7,302Before him are Silva Kaputikyan, Emmanuel Carrère, Jean d'Ormesson, Harlan Coben, Pjetër Bogdani, and Mukaghali Makatayev. After him are Francesc Eiximenis, Georges Ohnet, Simon Dach, Johann Nestroy, Édouard Drumont, and Ğabdulla Tuqay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Eric Knight ranks 120Before him are J. P. Guilford, Husni al-Za'im, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Eddie Eagan, Agustín Lara, and Nisargadatta Maharaj. After him are Emil Leon Post, Sergey Taboritsky, Elisabeth Bergner, Ngô Đình Thục, Vaso Čubrilović, and Ernst-Günther Baade. Among people deceased in 1943, Eric Knight ranks 79Before him are Aspazija, Edsel Ford, Aimo Cajander, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, and Giuseppe Terragni. After him are Constantin Prezan, Maria Restituta Kafka, Zabel Yesayan, Vladimir Kokovtsov, Yekaterina Budanova, and Willi Graf.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Knight ranks 1,679 out of 8,785Before him are David A. Stewart (1952), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), Ken Russell (1927), James Cosmo (1947), and Peter Collins (1931). After him are Albert Austin (1881), James McAvoy (1979), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Tim Staffell (1948), Stephen Langton (1150), and David Edward Hughes (1831).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eric Knight ranks 179Before him are Aphra Behn (1640), Kenneth Grahame (1859), William Caxton (1422), Matthew Arnold (1822), Rebecca West (1892), and David Ogilvy (1911). After him are Christina Rossetti (1830), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Donald Adamson (1939), Richard Aldington (1892), and Kingsley Amis (1922).