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Kenneth Grahame

1859 - 1932

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Kenneth Grahame ( GRAY-əm; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Grahame has received more than 749,875 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth Grahame is the 2,197th most popular writer (down from 2,156th in 2019), the 1,704th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,649th in 2019) and the 188th most popular British Writer.

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  • 750k

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  • 54.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kenneth Grahame ranks 2,197 out of 5,755. Before him are John Flanagan, Édouard Drumont, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Sholem Asch, Umberto Saba, and Gian Giorgio Trissino. After him are Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Molla Panah Vagif, Giraut de Bornelh, Jens Fink-Jensen, Ivan Yefremov, and Ben Hecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Kenneth Grahame ranks 59. Before him are Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Ernesto Cesàro, Radko Dimitriev, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Sen Katayama, and Havelock Ellis. After him are Walther von Lüttwitz, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Nahum Sokolow, Gustave Kahn, and Christian von Ehrenfels. Among people deceased in 1932, Kenneth Grahame ranks 49. Before him are Émile Friant, Nureddin Pasha, Ramon Casas, Ivar Kreuger, Emil Orlík, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. After him are Alajos Szokolyi, Hovannes Adamian, José Félix Uriburu, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Farabundo Martí, and Patrick Geddes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kenneth Grahame ranks 1,704 out of 7,765. Before him are Ed Sheeran (1991), Kate Sheppard (1848), Arthur Tansley (1871), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), and Edward Waring (1736). After him are Charles Gray (1928), John Wetton (1949), Rupert Grint (1988), James Connolly (1868), John Kerr (1824), and Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Kenneth Grahame ranks 188. Before him are Christina Rossetti (1830), Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Edward Young (1683), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Irvine Welsh (1957), and Matthew Arnold (1822). After him are Richard Aldington (1892), Tobias Smollett (1721), Robert Southey (1774), Noël Coward (1899), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647).

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