WRITER

Michael Grant

1914 - 2004

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Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to devote himself fully to writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Grant has received more than 65,647 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Grant is the 5,540th most popular writer (down from 4,849th in 2019), the 4,230th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,719th in 2019) and the 479th most popular British Writer.

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Notable Works

The annals of imperial Rome
History, Rome, Animals
The Dark Descent
Horror tales, American Horror tales, English Horror tales
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.
Mundo Feliz
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Accessible book
An Anthology of Hugo award winners. The highest prize in Sci-Fi. Each of these stories, by different authors, was voted as the best novella/short story of a particular year. Asimov was also the editor or something. I have read it and loved it. Science Fiction at it's best.
Thieves' World
Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Fiction
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology, Mythologie ancienne

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Grant ranks 5,540 out of 7,302Before him are Uma Aaltonen, Rick Warren, Ramsey Campbell, Wajdi Mouawad, Albert Engström, and Kenneth Burke. After him are Meindert DeJong, Antoni Lange, Þórbergur Þórðarson, John Esposito, Tom Robbins, and Ferdinand von Schirach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Michael Grant ranks 321Before him are Leabua Jonathan, Hermann Pilnik, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Tsuneko Sasamoto, William Grut, and Armen Alchian. After him are Kaisa Parviainen, Thomas Watson Jr., Frankie Manning, Sueo Ōe, Mircea David, and Ersilio Tonini. Among people deceased in 2004, Michael Grant ranks 254Before him are Germano de Figueiredo, Tini Wagner, Mikheil Korkia, Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, Julius Sang, and Jiří Weiss. After him are David Raksin, Veerappan, Victor Argo, Yordan Radichkov, Fernando Campos, and Yasutomi Nishizuka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Grant ranks 4,230 out of 8,785Before him are Steve Strange (1959), William of Newburgh (1130), Ramsey Campbell (1946), Brendan Perry (1959), David Jacobs (1888), and Joe Elliott (1959). After him are William Friese-Greene (1855), David C. Jewitt (1958), Tommy Docherty (1928), Roy Kinnear (1934), Allen Jones (1937), and Jimmy Jones (1928).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Michael Grant ranks 479Before him are Thomas Nashe (1567), Steven Moffat (1961), Robert Herrick (1591), Antonia Fraser (1932), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), and Ramsey Campbell (1946). After him are Roger Ascham (1515), Paula Yates (1959), Susanna Clarke (1959), Beryl Markham (1902), Aubrey de Grey (1963), and George Lillo (1691).