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Rebecca West

1892 - 1983

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Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rebecca West has received more than 689,037 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Rebecca West is the 2,214th most popular writer (up from 2,259th in 2019), the 1,649th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,747th in 2019) and the 177th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rebecca West ranks 2,214 out of 7,302Before her are Trygve Gulbranssen, Alfred Bester, Esther Vilar, Guillaume Tirel, Erich Segal, and Frédéric Ozanam. After her are Mikhail Artsybashev, Audre Lorde, Arsen Kotsoyev, Shakuntala Devi, Maciej Stryjkowski, and Joseph Heller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Rebecca West ranks 112Before her are Karl Lennart Oesch, Josyf Slipyj, Eugen Meindl, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Takeo Takagi, and Hermann Breith. After her are Reiner Stahel, Manuel Roxas, Robert H. Jackson, Mabel Normand, Liu Bocheng, and Charles Vanel. Among people deceased in 1983, Rebecca West ranks 74Before her are Arturo Umberto Illia, Louison Bobet, Miguel Alemán Valdés, Carolyn Jones, Marcel Dalio, and Josep Lluís Sert. After her are Ralph Richardson, Artemio Franchi, Bernard Vukas, Charlie Rivel, Ivan Vinogradov, and Anthony Blunt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rebecca West ranks 1,649 out of 8,785Before her are Peter Barlow (1776), John Muir (1838), John Collier (1850), George Grenville (1712), Samuel Wallis (1728), and Edward Fox (1937). After her are Sebastian Coe (1956), Kate Moss (1974), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Jeanette (1951), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), and E. P. Thompson (1924).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Rebecca West ranks 177Before her are Orderic Vitalis (1075), James Boswell (1740), Aphra Behn (1640), Kenneth Grahame (1859), William Caxton (1422), and Matthew Arnold (1822). After her are David Ogilvy (1911), Eric Knight (1897), Christina Rossetti (1830), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Edward FitzGerald (1809), and Donald Adamson (1939).