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Margaret Drabble

1939 - Today

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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Drabble has received more than 491,962 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Margaret Drabble is the 4,922nd most popular writer (down from 4,182nd in 2019), the 4,095th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,366th in 2019) and the 478th most popular British Writer.

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  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Drabble ranks 4,922 out of 5,794. Before her are Kim Newman, Janet Evanovich, Ramsey Campbell, Vasily Belov, Anne V. Coates, and Cecelia Ahern. After her are Delfina Bunge, John Logan, Mark Strand, Olivier Rolin, José Burgos, and Robert B. Sherman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Margaret Drabble ranks 406. Before her are Paul Drayton, Murray Rose, Karel Schoeman, Telesphore Toppo, Erwin Teufel, and Wilhelm Bungert. After her are Robert A. M. Stern, R. D. Burman, Paride Tumburus, Marino Perani, Paul Winter, and Józef Grudzień.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Drabble ranks 4,095 out of 6,924. Before her are Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), Joe Elliott (1959), Liam Howlett (1971), The Proclaimers (1962), Stephen Graham (1973), and Jesse Lingard (1992). After her are Allan Cunningham (1791), Sophie Muller (1962), Glenn Cornick (1947), Curt Smith (1961), Ray Park (1974), and Omid Djalili (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Margaret Drabble ranks 478. Before her are Dick King-Smith (1922), Owen Barfield (1898), William Cobbett (1763), Kim Newman (1959), Ramsey Campbell (1946), and Anne V. Coates (1925). After her are Thomas Traherne (1636), John Masefield (1878), Malcolm Bradbury (1932), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), Nicholas Evans (1950), and Iolo Morganwg (1747).

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