WRITER

Jean Ray

1887 - 1964

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Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (8 July 1887 – 17 September 1964), a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Although he wrote journalism, stories for young readers in Dutch by the name John Flanders, and scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written in French under the name Jean Ray. Among speakers of English, he is famous for his macabre novel Malpertuis (1943), which was filmed by Harry Kümel in 1971 (starring Orson Welles). He also used the pseudonyms John Flanders, King Ray, Alix R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Ray has received more than 11,537 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Ray is the 2,642nd most popular writer (up from 2,798th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 366th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Belgian Writer.

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Notable Works

Malpertuis
Catholics, Fiction
1976
Aleut and Eskimo art
Art, Eskimos, Indians of North America
1981
Man Ray
Catalogues raisonnés, American Art, Friends and associates
1924
Eskimo masks
Exhibitions, Religion, Eskimos
1967
Appliqué stitchery
Embroidery, Appliqué
1966
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
Science fiction, fiction Fantasy fiction
Hour after westerly / Robert M. Coates -- Housing problem / Henry Kuttner -- Portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- None before me / Sidney Carroll -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Demon lover / Shirley Jackson -- Miss Winters and the wind / Christine Noble Govan -- Mr. Death and the redheaded woman (the rider on the pale horse) / Helen Eustis -- Jeremy in the wind / Nigel Kneale -- Glass eye / John Keir Cross -- Saint Katy the virgin / John Steinbeck -- Night Flight / Josephine W. Johnson -- Cocoon / John B.L. Goodwin -- Hand / Wessel Hyatt Smitter -- [Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W/The_Sound_Machine) / Roald Dahl -- Laocoön Complex / J.C. Furnas -- I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood. Witnesses / William Sansom -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Heartburn / Hortense Calisher -- Supremacy of Uruguay / E.B. White -- Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- Note for the milkman / Sidney Carroll -- Eight Mistresses / Jean Hrolda -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Inflexible Logic / Russell Maloney.
1952

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Ray ranks 2,642 out of 7,302. Before him are Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Rahman Baba, Asadi Tusi, Richard Bandler, Mary Astell, and Duris of Samos. After him are Elio Vittorini, Jules Supervielle, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jules Guesde, Olga Rozanova, and Tom Sharpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jean Ray ranks 115. Before him are Arthur Percival, Jim Thorpe, Kazimierz Fajans, Jean Patou, Alvin Hansen, and Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Vladimir Smirnov, Leo Spitzer, Paula von Preradović, Andrei Shkuro, Ayşe Sultan, and Adone Zoli. Among people deceased in 1964, Jean Ray ranks 76. Before him are Rauf Orbay, T. H. White, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Firmin Lambot, Gerald Gardner, and Franz Alexander. After him are Guillermo Subiabre, Gustav-Adolf von Zangen, Pietro Serantoni, Ebbe Schwartz, Otto Schniewind, and Eric Dolphy.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean Ray ranks 368 out of 1,190. Before him are Prince Laurent of Belgium (1963), Léon Scieur (1888), Edgar P. Jacobs (1904), Arnulf, Count of Holland (951), Lambert Lombard (1505), and Pierre Harmel (1911). After him are Marcel Broodthaers (1924), Joseph Jongen (1873), Lucas van Valckenborch (1535), Gaston Reiff (1921), Wilfried Van Moer (1945), and José van Dam (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Jean Ray ranks 22. Before him are Jean Bolland (1596), William of Moerbeke (1215), Guido Gezelle (1830), Hendrik Conscience (1812), J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856), and Amélie Nothomb (1967). After him are Daniël Heinsius (1580), Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), Jan Gruter (1560), Caspar Barlaeus (1584), Felix Timmermans (1886), and Simon Leys (1935).

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