WRITER

Margaret Drabble

1939 - Today

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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer. Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was honoured by the University of Cambridge in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous redbrick (e.g. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Drabble has received more than 796,813 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Margaret Drabble is the 6,088th most popular writer (down from 5,412th in 2019), the 4,992nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,423rd in 2019) and the 559th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The waterfall
Fiction, Man-woman relationships
1969
A natural curiosity
Fiction, Friendship, Women
1989
A summer bird-cage
1962
The millstone
Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Unmarried mothers
1965
The Garrick year
Novela Inglesa -, Actors, Romance fiction
1960
Jerusalem the golden
once I read the book I'll be happy to send descritive detail about the book; until I get a copy, hard or e, I've no information on it other than Drabble writes beautifully and the title is intriguing.
1967

Page views of Margaret Drabbles by language

Over the past year Margaret Drabble has had the most page views in the with 124,123 views, followed by German (2,422), and French (2,322). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (141.54%), West Frisian (93.28%), and German (79.14%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Drabble ranks 6,088 out of 7,302. Before her are Lee Strobel, Mariz Kemal, Robin Morgan, Katie Couric, Miklós Haraszti, and Zadie Smith. After her are Coventry Patmore, Owen Barfield, Peter Orlovsky, Aglaja Veteranyi, János Batsányi, and Jakob Jakobsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Margaret Drabble ranks 535. Before her are Barbara Askins, Mavis Staples, Royce D. Applegate, Carl Yastrzemski, Terry Paine, and Mary Peters. After her are Dorothy Shirley, Vitali Davydov, Jan Szczepański, Robert A. M. Stern, George M. Whitesides, and Mickey Kantor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Drabble ranks 4,992 out of 8,785. Before her are Duncan James (1978), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Laura Knight (1877), Zadie Smith (1975), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), and Mary Peters (1939). After her are Claude Buckenham (1876), Dorothy Shirley (1939), Coventry Patmore (1823), Owen Barfield (1898), George Gilbert Scott (1811), and Sophie Monk (1979).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Margaret Drabble ranks 559. Before her are John Braine (1922), Denise Levertov (1923), Thomas Traherne (1636), Hammond Innes (1913), Chris Claremont (1950), and Zadie Smith (1975). After her are Coventry Patmore (1823), Owen Barfield (1898), John Betjeman (1906), Eva Crane (1912), George Grove (1820), and Ian McDonald (1960).

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