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John Gardner

1926 - 2007

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John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, was for a period an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Gardner has received more than 47,849 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. John Gardner is the 4,759th most popular writer (up from 4,808th in 2019), the 3,613th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,901st in 2019) and the 410th most popular British Writer.

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  • 48k

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  • 46.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Gardner ranks 4,759 out of 5,755. Before her are Jacqueline Susann, Michael Lewis, John Holt, Sara Paretsky, Károly Kisfaludy, and Hanif Kureishi. After her are Urs Widmer, Fay Weldon, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Warren Farrell, and Jeffrey Eugenides.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, John Gardner ranks 325. Before her are Paul G. Comba, Roberto Goyeneche, Bernhard Klodt, Lucien Sève, Joseíto, and Metaksia Simonyan. After her are Giancarlo Bergamini, K. D. Jadhav, Pedro Dellacha, Ken Olsen, David Malet Armstrong, and Heikki Hasu. Among people deceased in 2007, John Gardner ranks 255. Before her are Anita Roddick, Kei Kumai, Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Art Buchwald, Édouard Gagnon, and Joseíto. After her are Katsuko Saruhashi, John P. Ryan, Noël Milarew Odingar, Igor Novikov, Georg Buschner, and Enzo Biagi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gardner ranks 3,613 out of 7,765. Before her are Peter Perez Burdett (1734), Hanif Kureishi (1954), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Mary Ure (1933), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and Ewen Bremner (1972). After her are Thomas Bell (1792), Havergal Brian (1876), Fay Weldon (1931), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), and Callum Keith Rennie (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Gardner ranks 410. Before her are Lucy Hawking (1969), Aneirin (525), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Richard Pococke (1704), Jonathan Coe (1961), and Hanif Kureishi (1954). After her are Fay Weldon (1931), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), James Thomson (1700), Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), and William Harrison Ainsworth (1805).

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