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George Woodcock

1912 - 1995

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George Woodcock (May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Woodcock has received more than 156,604 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. George Woodcock is the 6,181st most popular writer (down from 5,241st in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from Canada (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 50.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Woodcock ranks 6,181 out of 7,302. Before him are Anthony Doerr, Jānis Akuraters, Michael Drayton, George Saunders, David McCullough, and Maxine Kumin. After him are Maria Teresa Horta, Gillian Flynn, Albert Kivikas, Stephen Vincent Benét, Kurt Marti, and Lester Bangs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, George Woodcock ranks 373. Before him are Jadwiga Wajs, Eva Crane, Wendy Barrie, Eleazar de Carvalho, Dorothy Brookshaw, and Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein. After him are Eva Dawes, Richard Doll, Sam Snead, Henry M. Jackson, Hisakichi Toyoda, and Elizaveta Mukasei. Among people deceased in 1995, George Woodcock ranks 301. Before him are Róbert Antal, Eeva-Liisa Manner, Peter Cook, Michael Hordern, Salil Chowdhury, and Boris Gurevich. After him are Stig Sjölin, John C. Stennis, Frank Perry, Burton Jastram, Ed Flanders, and Iqbal Masih.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, George Woodcock ranks 613 out of 1,622. Before him are Mark Messier (1961), Alexander Hurd (1910), Suzanne Clément (1969), Bernie Geoffrion (1931), Haji (1946), and Guy Lombardo (1902). After him are Eva Dawes (1912), Sam Langford (1886), Currie Graham (1967), Archibald MacKinnon (1937), Suzanne Morrow Francis (1930), and Caroline Rhea (1964).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, George Woodcock ranks 37. Before him are Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Antonine Maillet (1929), Sven Delblanc (1931), Mark Strand (1934), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), and Farley Mowat (1921). After him are John Ralston Saul (1947), Robert Elsie (1950), Deborah Ellis (1960), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Élie Blanchard (1881), and Gregory Colbert (1960).

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