1924 - 2004
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Aiken has received more than 405,087 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Joan Aiken is the 4,408th most popular writer (down from 4,141st in 2019), the 3,276th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,109th in 2019) and the 375th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Joan Aiken ranks 4,408 out of 5,755. Before her are Elias Khoury, Ivan Olbracht, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Juhan Smuul, Larry Collins, and Louis Hémon. After her are Pierre Emmanuel, Julius Zeyer, Charlotte Casiraghi, János Pilinszky, Nancy Huston, and Suzanne Lilar.
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 4,402
1882 - 1952
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 4,403
1873 - 1944
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 4,404
1922 - 1971
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 4,405
1929 - 2005
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 4,406
1880 - 1913
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 4,407
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 4,408
1916 - 1984
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 4,409
1841 - 1901
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 4,410
1986 - Present
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 4,411
1921 - 1981
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 4,412
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 4,413
1901 - 1992
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 4,414
Among people born in 1924, Joan Aiken ranks 287. Before her are Boris Vasilyev, Karel Kachyňa, Kihachi Okamoto, Kenny Dorham, Shirley Chisholm, and György Lázár. After her are Ron Moody, Scott Brady, Leo Buscaglia, Ruth Leuwerik, Max van der Stoel, and Guillermo Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 2004, Joan Aiken ranks 189. Before her are Michel Colombier, Virginia Grey, Ehrenfried Patzel, O. W. Fischer, Karel Kachyňa, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra. After her are Jan Sterling, Sara Lidman, Oscar Heisserer, Balamani Amma, Janet Akyüz Mattei, and David Reimer.
1924 - 2013
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 281
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 282
1924 - 2005
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 283
1924 - 1972
HPI: 47.41
Rank: 284
1924 - 2005
HPI: 47.41
Rank: 285
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.38
Rank: 286
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 287
1924 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 288
1924 - 1985
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 289
1924 - 1998
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 290
1924 - 2016
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 291
1924 - 2011
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 292
1924 - Present
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 293
1939 - 2004
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 183
1917 - 2004
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 184
1914 - 2004
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 185
1915 - 2004
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 186
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 187
1947 - 2004
HPI: 47.38
Rank: 188
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 189
1921 - 2004
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 190
1923 - 2004
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 191
1914 - 2004
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 192
1909 - 2004
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 193
1943 - 2004
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 194
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 195
Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 3,276 out of 7,765. Before her are Andrew Planche (1727), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Dick Turpin (1705), Diana Dors (1931), Mike Spence (1936), and Catherine Bell (1968). After her are Rhona Mitra (1976), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Dave Davies (1947), Gayatri Devi (1919), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), and Michelle Dockery (1981).
1727 - 1809
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 3,270
1778 - 1868
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 3,271
1705 - 1739
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 3,272
1931 - 1984
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 3,273
1936 - 1968
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 3,274
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 3,275
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 3,276
1976 - Present
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 3,277
1892 - 1968
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 3,278
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 3,279
1919 - 2009
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 3,280
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 3,281
1981 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 3,282
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 375. Before her are John Mawe (1764), Isaac Watts (1674), Walter Savage Landor (1775), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Anne Bradstreet (1612), and Jackie Collins (1937). After her are A. E. Housman (1859), Richard Hoggart (1918), Sax Rohmer (1883), Christopher Priest (1943), Edward William Lane (1801), and George Chapman (1559).
1764 - 1829
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 369
1674 - 1748
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 370
1775 - 1864
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 371
1788 - 1872
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 372
1612 - 1672
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 373
1937 - 2015
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 374
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 375
1859 - 1936
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 376
1918 - 2014
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 377
1883 - 1959
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 378
1943 - 2024
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 379
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 380
1559 - 1634
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 381