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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 805,038 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Drabble is the 5,431st most popular writer (down from 4,917th in 2019), the 4,432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,086th in 2019) and the 497th most popular British Writer.

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  • 810k

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  • 43.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Drabble ranks 5,431 out of 5,755. Before her are Whittaker Chambers, Robin Morgan, Kjell Ola Dahl, Delfina Bunge, Claude Esteban, and Dafydd ap Gwilym. After her are Robert B. Sherman, Florian Zeller, Josipina Turnograjska, Axel Merckx, Kristin Hannah, and Jun Maeda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Margaret Drabble ranks 454. Before her are Hildrun Laufer-Claus, Yaakov Neeman, Barbara Askins, Pierluigi Pizzaballa, Francisco Mendes, and Edoardo Menichelli. After her are Martin Feldstein, Max Lorenz, Vitali Davydov, R. D. Burman, Lee Trevino, and Henning Christophersen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Drabble ranks 4,432 out of 7,765. Before her are Alan A'Court (1934), Thomas Hodgskin (1787), Reginald Denny (1891), Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862), Ian Wallace (1946), and Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320). After her are James Challis (1803), Pip Torrens (1960), Michael Robinson (1958), Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951), Owain Gwynedd (1100), and David Beaton (1494).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Margaret Drabble ranks 497. Before her are Thomas Hughes (1822), Darren Shan (1972), Joe Orton (1933), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), Pat Barker (1943), and Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320). After her are Sam Houser (1972), David Storey (1933), Alex Garland (1970), Ali Smith (1962), Alasdair Gray (1934), and Terence Rattigan (1911).

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