WRITER

Penelope Fitzgerald

1916 - 2000

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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Penelope Fitzgerald has received more than 446,516 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Penelope Fitzgerald is the 2,589th most popular writer (up from 3,391st in 2019), the 1,914th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,510th in 2019) and the 211th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Offshore
Barges, British, British Broadcasting Corporation
1979
Innocence
Young women, Italy, Fiction
1986
The bookshop
Booksellers and bookselling, Bookstores, England
1978
The golden child
Museum curators, Open Library Staff Picks, Africa
1977
The gate of angels
Working class women, Physicists, Fiction
1990
The Knox brothers
Biography
1977

Page views of Penelope Fitzgeralds by language

Over the past year Penelope Fitzgerald has had the most page views in the with 45,693 views, followed by Spanish (13,291), and German (5,900). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (162.67%), Afrikaans (105.76%), and Spanish (91.71%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 2,589 out of 7,302. Before her are Arthur Young, Constantin von Wurzbach, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Karl Gutzkow, Isaac Deutscher, and Jim Thompson. After her are Menasseh Ben Israel, Idris Bitlisi, Konstantin Batyushkov, Boris Pilnyak, Gerald Gardner, and Emma Orczy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 112. Before her are Zail Singh, Alexey Maresyev, Edmundo Suárez, Ugo Locatelli, Helmut Gröttrup, and Erik Nilsson. After her are Amha Selassie, Hilary Koprowski, Moondog, Giuseppe Taddei, Julian Rotter, and Wilhelm Batz. Among people deceased in 2000, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 104. Before her are Ursula Kuczynski, Svetozar Vukmanović, Kalle Svensson, Christian Marquand, Bernhard Wicki, and L. Sprague de Camp. After her are Claude Autant-Lara, Nancy Marchand, Gérard Blain, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Wojciech Has, and Oleg Yefremov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 1,914 out of 8,785. Before her are Julian Sands (1958), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), William Jackson Hooker (1785), William Kent (1685), William Watson (1715), and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759). After her are Willibald (700), Gerald Gardner (1884), Mary Cartwright (1900), Arthur Tansley (1871), Prince William of Gloucester (1941), and Mary Hopkin (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 211. Before her are John Mandeville (1300), Noël Coward (1899), David Lodge (1935), Ouida (1839), John Aubrey (1626), and Arthur Young (1741). After her are Gerald Gardner (1884), George Whitefield (1714), Tobias Smollett (1721), John Wyndham (1903), Frederick Marryat (1792), and Mary Astell (1666).

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