WRITER

Ian McEwan

1948 - Today

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Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian McEwan has received more than 2,971,834 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Ian McEwan is the 660th most popular writer (up from 827th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 678th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Writer.

Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Atonement, and Saturday.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ian McEwan ranks 660 out of 7,302. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński, Pietro Metastasio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Camilo José Cela, Washington Irving, and Frontinus. After him are Isabelle de Charrière, Aratus, Giambattista Basile, Ivan Goncharov, Irwin Shaw, and Eduardo Galeano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ian McEwan ranks 42. Before him are Steven Tyler, Frank Abagnale, Robert Plant, Yoshihide Suga, John Bonham, and Keke Rosberg. After him are Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Carpenter, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Blackburn, Grace Jones, and Tony Iommi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian McEwan ranks 501 out of 8,785. Before him are Trevor Howard (1913), James I of Scotland (1394), Richard Branson (1950), James IV of Scotland (1473), John Couch Adams (1819), and Patrick Stewart (1940). After him are William Stanley Jevons (1835), Gordon Brown (1951), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Jim Clark (1936), and Henry the Young King (1155).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Ian McEwan ranks 58. Before him are Samuel Johnson (1709), Daphne du Maurier (1907), Alexander Pope (1688), Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), and Ernest Thompson Seton (1860). After him are Douglas Adams (1952), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Oliver Sacks (1933), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Christopher Tolkien (1924), and Beatrix Potter (1866).

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