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Eric Linklater

1899 - 1974

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Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Linklater has received more than 184,975 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eric Linklater is the 6,128th most popular writer (down from 5,220th in 2019), the 5,748th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,670th in 2019) and the 638th most popular British Writer.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eric Linklater ranks 6,128 out of 5,755. Before him are Miro Gavran, Sebastian Faulks, Wolf Haas, Roberto Orci, Ingo Schulze, and Kristina Ohlsson. After him are Leonard Maltin, Liane Moriarty, Audrey Niffenegger, Mercy Otis Warren, Leena Lehtolainen, and Katherine Schwarzenegger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Eric Linklater ranks 273. Before him are Phyllis Haver, Dwight Frye, Percy Lavon Julian, Gertrude Berg, Randall Thompson, and Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe. After him are Carmel Myers, Allen Tate, Genevieve Tobin, John Sparkman, and Takashi Kawanishi. Among people deceased in 1974, Eric Linklater ranks 235. Before him are Gabriel Thorstensen, Edna Best, Anders Lange, Patricia Collinge, Ken Myers, and Dorothy Fields. After him are John Crowe Ransom and Norman Kirk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Linklater ranks 5,748 out of 7,765. Before him are Stuart Milner-Barry (1906), Liz Truss (1975), Richard Seddon (1845), Eoin MacNeill (1867), Gregg Sulkin (1992), and Louise Brealey (1979). After him are Scott McTominay (1996), Michail Antonio (1990), Heather Sears (1935), Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford (1960), Andy Sutcliffe (1947), and Susannah Harker (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eric Linklater ranks 638. Before him are Clemence Dane (1888), Charles Stross (1964), Hugh MacDiarmid (1892), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), Robert Bridges (1844), and Sebastian Faulks (1953). After him are Sabine Baring-Gould (1834), Tom Rob Smith (1979), John Mortimer (1923), Benjamin Jowett (1817), Andrea Levy (1956), and Anna Burns (1962).

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