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Joyce Cary

1888 - 1957

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Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joyce Cary has received more than 171,771 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joyce Cary is the 6,168th most popular writer (down from 5,745th in 2019), the 5,126th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,054th in 2019) and the 577th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joyce Cary ranks 6,168 out of 7,302. Before him are Cecelia Ahern, Varsha Adalja, Jun Maeda, Frank Harris, Barbara Frischmuth, and Mehmed Uzun. After him are Theodore Roethke, Éric Vuillard, Robert Creeley, Philip Massinger, Paul Scott, and Anthony Doerr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Joyce Cary ranks 257. Before him are Alfred Braun, George B. Seitz, Jan Palouš, Josef Ternström, Gabriel Thorstensen, and Lowell Sherman. After him are Hubert Wilkins, Tryggve Gran, Christian Gitsham, Walther Penck, Jack Holt, and Harold Hardwick. Among people deceased in 1957, Joyce Cary ranks 211. Before him are Jack Butler Yeats, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, Ezio Pinza, Katie Johnson, Keith Andrews, and Gene Lockhart. After him are Reginald Aldworth Daly, Jorge Sarmiento, Nico Bouvy, Clarence Walker, Dorothy Richardson, and Harry Watson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joyce Cary ranks 5,126 out of 8,785. Before him are Philip Selway (1967), David Douglas (1799), Lennox Berkeley (1903), Kenneth Connor (1918), Jule Styne (1905), and Marina Diamandis (1985). After him are John Stainer (1840), William Lyon Mackenzie (1795), Simon Shelton (1966), Vic Elford (1935), Roger Taylor (1960), and Nellie Sengupta (1886).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Joyce Cary ranks 577. Before him are Ann Cleeves (1954), Reginald Hill (1936), Bernardine Evaristo (1959), J. G. Farrell (1935), John Addington Symonds (1840), and E. W. Hornung (1866). After him are Philip Massinger (1583), Paul Scott (1920), Michael Drayton (1563), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Alan Hollinghurst (1954), and Alan Garner (1934).

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