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Howard Jacobson

1942 - Today

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Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist. He writes comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Jacobson has received more than 379,222 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Howard Jacobson is the 6,270th most popular writer (down from 5,454th in 2019), the 5,316th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,497th in 2019) and the 604th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Automation and society
Addresses, essays, lectures, Automation, Social aspects
1959
Redback
1986
Kalooki nights
Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish cartoonists
2006
Coming from behind
Social life and customs, Jews, Fiction
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organized games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime, he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalization can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another’s success.
1983
In the Land of Oz
Description and travel
1987
Peeping Tom
Fiction, Voyeurism
1984

Page views of Howard Jacobsons by language

Over the past year Howard Jacobson has had the most page views in the with 54,099 views, followed by French (1,670), and Russian (1,310). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (329.59%), Finnish (124.85%), and Estonian (59.60%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Howard Jacobson ranks 6,270 out of 7,302. Before him are Lauren Weisberger, Renata Viganò, Gita Mehta, Athol Fugard, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, and George Farquhar. After him are Mah Laqa Bai, Róža Domašcyna, Lloyd C. Douglas, Dorothy Wordsworth, Tillie Olsen, and Fareed Zakaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Howard Jacobson ranks 649. Before him are Harry Chapin, Richard D. Wolff, Karen Hantze Susman, Alan Rachins, Bobbie Gentry, and Andrew Vachss. After him are Adrien Houngbédji, Donald E. Williams, Richard Myers, Ozren Bonačić, Antonio Munguía, and Samuel Ramey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Howard Jacobson ranks 5,316 out of 8,785. Before him are John Bercow (1963), Valerie Davies (1912), Lucy Morton (1898), Ron Flockhart (1923), George Farquhar (1677), and Regé-Jean Page (1988). After him are Isabel Jeans (1891), Victoria Tennant (1950), Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947), Jimmy McCulloch (1953), Dani Filth (1973), and Adam Ant (1954).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Howard Jacobson ranks 604. Before him are Alfred Domett (1811), Thomas Heywood (1574), R. C. Sherriff (1896), Dorothy Richardson (1873), Derek Taylor (1932), and George Farquhar (1677). After him are Dorothy Wordsworth (1771), Caroline Norton (1808), Charlotte Smith (1749), Polly Samson (1962), Naomi Mitchison (1897), and Lascelles Abercrombie (1881).

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