WRITER

Nevil Shute

1899 - 1960

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Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nevil Shute has received more than 848,759 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Nevil Shute is the 3,957th most popular writer (down from 3,178th in 2019), the 2,836th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,375th in 2019) and the 318th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nevil Shute ranks 3,957 out of 7,302. Before him are Alejandro Casona, Zofia Nałkowska, Philippa Gregory, Susanna Kaysen, Bahram Beyzai, and Pauline Kael. After him are Mongo Beti, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Irawati Karve, Simo Matavulj, Joan Alcover, and Virginie Despentes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Nevil Shute ranks 182. Before him are Filipp Oktyabrsky, Paul Schmidt, Dora Gerson, Adolf Brudes, Gale Sondergaard, and Armas Toivonen. After him are Kenjiro Takayanagi, Ralf Törngren, E. B. White, Masujiro Nishida, René Petit, and Jean de Brunhoff. Among people deceased in 1960, Nevil Shute ranks 132. Before him are Melvin Purvis, Wu Lien-teh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Oliver Kirk, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Paul Fort. After him are Eduard Pütsep, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Carl Keenan Seyfert, Noël Bas, Teodoro Picado Michalski, and Oswald Veblen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nevil Shute ranks 2,836 out of 8,785. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rebecca Clarke (1886), Mary Dyer (1611), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Matthew Vaughn (1971), and Henry Salt (1780). After him are Edmund Campion (1540), Israel Regardie (1907), Ice MC (1965), Adrian Paul (1959), Shirley Eaton (1937), and Jean Marsh (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Nevil Shute ranks 318. Before him are Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915), Minette Walters (1949), William Hazlitt (1778), Arthur Waley (1889), William Congreve (1670), and Christiane Amanpour (1958). After him are James Allen (1864), Joan Aiken (1924), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Alexander Neckam (1157), Mary Norton (1903), and Eleanor Hibbert (1906).

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