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Pauline Baynes

1922 - 2008

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Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 1922 – 1 August 2008) was an English illustrator, author, and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrator of some of J. R. R. Tolkien's minor works, including Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pauline Baynes has received more than 246,136 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pauline Baynes is the 5,078th most popular writer (down from 4,694th in 2019), the 3,965th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,733rd in 2019) and the 444th most popular British Writer.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pauline Baynes ranks 5,078 out of 5,755. Before her are Nella Larsen, Thomas Love Peacock, Nancy Kress, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, José Eduardo Agualusa, and Elisabeth Langgässer. After her are Ludwig Ganghofer, Jacques Jasmin, Wafa Sultan, Milan Rúfus, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Julia Hartwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Pauline Baynes ranks 318. Before her are Guy Madison, Edwin Vásquez, Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo, René Bader, Mochtar Lubis, and Osvaldo Fattori. After her are Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Grace Paley, Gustaf Jansson, Jacques Lataste, Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, and Charles Brown. Among people deceased in 2008, Pauline Baynes ranks 257. Before her are Eugenio Montejo, Sandy Allen, Halszka Osmólska, Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Judah Folkman, and Omar Caetano. After her are Derog Gioura, Tony Hillerman, Yegor Letov, František Čapek, Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, and Jimmy Stewart.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pauline Baynes ranks 3,965 out of 7,765. Before her are Delia Derbyshire (1937), Donald Campbell (1921), Herbert Giles (1845), Christopher O'Neill (1974), Jayne Atkinson (1959), and Alexander Wilson (1766). After her are Ed Skrein (1983), Walter Winterbottom (1913), Liz Smith (1921), Sandy Powell (1960), Beth Gibbons (1965), and William Robert Brooks (1844).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Pauline Baynes ranks 444. Before her are Jonathan Stroud (1970), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), James Hogg (1770), Wilbert Awdry (1911), Charles Wilkins (1749), and Thomas Love Peacock (1785). After her are Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Susanna Clarke (1959), Barbara Pym (1913), Richard Llewellyn (1906), Richard K. Morgan (1965), and Susan Blackmore (1951).

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