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Graham Greene

1904 - 1991

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Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Graham Greene has received more than 4,491,828 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Graham Greene is the 457th most popular writer (down from 325th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 259th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Writer.

Graham Greene is most famous for his novels, The End of the Affair and The Quiet American.

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  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Graham Greene ranks 457 out of 7,302. Before him are Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, and Héloïse. After him are Vasily Grossman, Lesya Ukrainka, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Tibullus, and Marguerite de Navarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Graham Greene ranks 16. Before him are B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, Johnny Weissmuller, George Gamow, Alexei Kosygin, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. After him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, René Lacoste, Pavel Cherenkov, Hans Albert Einstein, and Harry Martinson. Among people deceased in 1991, Graham Greene ranks 17. Before him are Jiang Qing, Klaus Barbie, John Bardeen, Miles Davis, Gustáv Husák, and Soichiro Honda. After him are Lazar Kaganovich, Frank Capra, Michael Landon, Marcel Lefebvre, Rajiv Gandhi, and Oona O'Neill.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Graham Greene ranks 330 out of 8,785. Before him are James V of Scotland (1512), Bonnie Tyler (1951), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), Robbie Coltrane (1950), and Halford Mackinder (1861). After him are Morrissey (1959), William Hogarth (1697), John Galsworthy (1867), William Petty (1623), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), and Norman Haworth (1883).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Graham Greene ranks 34. Before him are C. S. Lewis (1898), William Wordsworth (1770), Ken Follett (1949), Ian Fleming (1908), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), and John Keats (1795). After him are John Galsworthy (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Thomas Paine (1737), and Philip Larkin (1922).

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