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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. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Penelope Fitzgerald has received more than 450,697 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Penelope Fitzgerald is the 3,403rd most popular writer (down from 3,213th in 2019), the 2,516th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,396th in 2019) and the 291st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 3,403 out of 5,755. Before her are Arnošt Muka, Stanisław Konarski, Mikhail Isakovsky, Maria Deraismes, Victor Pelevin, and Mastoureh Ardalan. After her are Hiratsuka Raichō, James Herbert Brennan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Liza Marklund, Martin Amis, and Eduard Vilde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 142. Before her are Werner Bischof, Veronika Dudarova, Wan Li, Svend Asmussen, Lou Thesz, and Fernando Lamas. After her are Movita Castaneda, Dom Mintoff, Dorothy McGuire, Robert H. Dicke, Jacques Georges, and Carlo Rustichelli. Among people deceased in 2000, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 142. Before her are Nancy Marchand, Franco Rossi, David Tomlinson, Teruki Miyamoto, Franco Donatoni, and Adamantios Androutsopoulos. After her are William Porter, W. D. Hamilton, Walter Berry, Ernst Jandl, Jerzy Giedroyc, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 2,516 out of 7,765. Before her are David Chipperfield (1953), Veronica Cartwright (1949), Richard Swinburne (1934), Austin Osman Spare (1886), Nick Kamen (1962), and Jodie Whittaker (1982). After her are Morris Travers (1872), James Herbert Brennan (1940), Una Stubbs (1937), Arnold Bax (1883), John Tavener (1944), and Jackie Oliver (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Penelope Fitzgerald ranks 291. Before her are Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), Edith Durham (1863), Robert Chambers (1802), Eric Ambler (1909), and David Crystal (1941). After her are James Herbert Brennan (1940), Martin Amis (1949), Israel Zangwill (1864), Sue Townsend (1946), John Aubrey (1626), and Siegfried Sassoon (1886).

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