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WRITER

Quentin Crisp

1908 - 1999

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Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; (1908-12-25)25 December 1908 – (1999-11-21)21 November 1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant. He afterwards became a gay icon due to his flamboyant personality, fashion sense and wit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Quentin Crisp has received more than 1,427,356 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Quentin Crisp is the 4,056th most popular writer (down from 3,909th in 2019), the 2,992nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,892nd in 2019) and the 341st most popular British Writer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.44

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Quentin Crisp ranks 4,056 out of 5,755Before her are Janko Kráľ, Mary McCarthy, Alexander Galich, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Taranatha, and Elin Wägner. After her are Adam Naruszewicz, Andrei Mureșanu, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Thomas Nashe, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, and Juhan Liiv.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Quentin Crisp ranks 224Before her are Don Bradman, Teizo Takeuchi, Jenő Vincze, Gualberto Villarroel, Kenji Miyamoto, and Walter Bruch. After her are Oddbjørn Hagen, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Alfred Eisenbeisser, Karl Hein, Artem Alikhanian, and Francesco Camusso. Among people deceased in 1999, Quentin Crisp ranks 156Before her are Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Minoru Chiaki, Madeline Kahn, Rolf Liebermann, Ellen Corby, and Josefina Pla. After her are Muhammetnazar Gapurow, Betty Robinson, Greg, Sarah Kane, Michael Aris, and Abraham Polonsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Quentin Crisp ranks 2,992 out of 7,765Before her are Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), John Hoppner (1758), Derek Bell (1941), Gemma Chan (1982), Ashley Cole (1980), and Capability Brown (1716). After her are William Smith (1790), Andrew Latimer (1949), Thomas Gage (1719), Thomas Nashe (1567), Sarah Siddons (1755), and John Peckham (1227).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Quentin Crisp ranks 341Before her are Arnold Wesker (1932), Robert Holdstock (1948), Brian O'Nolan (1911), Joe Abercrombie (1974), Richard Hughes (1900), and Michael Morpurgo (1943). After her are Thomas Nashe (1567), Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), E. L. James (1963), Ronald Knox (1888), William Hazlitt (1778), and Rosemary Sutcliff (1920).