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 152,462 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 1,678th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,574th in 2019) and the 179th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Portrait of a flying Yorkshireman
Correspondence
1952
Lassie come-home
collie, dog stories, Dogs
A collie named lassie has to be sold because her family are having bad times . Lassie escapes twice but when her new owner takes her to a place too far to run from will lassie be able to make the journey back to her home ? A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland -- too far a journey for any dog to make alone. But Lassie is not just any dog. - Publisher.
1940
The Flying Yorkshireman
1938
Dr. Johnson and Birmingham
Appreciation
1960
Lassie Come-home
Fiction, Dogs, Juvenile fiction
Eric Knight’s heartfelt tale of the noble collie Lassie, first published in 1938, receives a worthy new incarnation as a picture book in this splendid collaboration.
1995
This above all
World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
1941

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eric Knight ranks 2,252 out of 7,302. Before 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 120. Before 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 79. Before 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 1,678 out of 8,785. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eric Knight ranks 179. Before 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).

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