WRITER

Mary Renault

1905 - 1983

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Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault (), was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928. After graduating from St Hugh's with a Third Class in English, she worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels, which were contemporary romances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Renault has received more than 509,430 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Mary Renault is the 3,771st most popular writer (up from 3,790th in 2019), the 2,677th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,782nd in 2019) and the 305th most popular British Writer.

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  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Persian Boy
1972
The mask of Apollo
1920
The king must die
1952
The last of the wine
1956
The Charioteer
1953
The bull from the sea
Missions
1962

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Renault ranks 3,771 out of 7,302. Before her are Dares Phrygius, Brandon Sanderson, Angelo de Gubernatis, Adile Sultan, Brendan Behan, and Nick Hornby. After her are Ferdinand Freiligrath, Friederike Mayröcker, Said Akl, Lucrezia Marinella, Jacob of Serugh, and Peter Andreas Heiberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Mary Renault ranks 198. Before her are Karol Borsuk, Sanford Meisner, C. P. Snow, Étienne Mattler, Siaka Stevens, and Harold Arlen. After her are Mario Varglien, Joel McCrea, Irmgard Keun, Abeid Karume, Lilí Álvarez, and André Cluytens. Among people deceased in 1983, Mary Renault ranks 132. Before her are José Iraragorri, Musine Kokalari, Herman Kahn, Norman Holter, Nichita Stănescu, and Mykola Bazhan. After her are Christophe Soglo, Bill Brandt, Juan Carlos Zabala, Harish-Chandra, Oddbjørn Hagen, and Bart Bok.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Renault ranks 2,677 out of 8,785. Before her are William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396), Centwine of Wessex (643), Terence Fisher (1904), Gorden Kaye (1941), John Wilkes (1725), and Nick Hornby (1957). After her are Hugh Latimer (1485), Mark Addy (1964), James Guillaume (1844), Ken Aston (1915), Rachel Ward (1957), and Johnny Haynes (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mary Renault ranks 305. Before her are Nancy Mitford (1904), Constance Lloyd (1858), Georgette Heyer (1902), Ian Rankin (1960), Rupert Brooke (1887), and Nick Hornby (1957). After her are Iain Banks (1954), Israel Zangwill (1864), Eric Ambler (1909), Richard Hammond (1969), Francis Beaumont (1584), and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805).

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