1892 - 1983
Dame Cicily 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 the British 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 622,109 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Rebecca West is the 2,266th most popular writer (up from 2,300th in 2019), the 1,752nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,737th in 2019) and the 195th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Rebecca West ranks 2,266 out of 5,755. Before her are John Kennedy Toole, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Phan Bội Châu, Jean Raspail, Elisabeth of Schönau, and Paschasius Radbertus. After her are William Beckford, Johann Karl August Musäus, Audre Lorde, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Terence McKenna, and Wieland Wagner.
1937 - 1969
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 2,260
1825 - 1898
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,261
1867 - 1940
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,262
1925 - 2020
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,263
1129 - 1164
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,264
792 - 865
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 2,265
1892 - 1983
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 2,266
1760 - 1844
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 2,267
1735 - 1787
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,268
1934 - 1992
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,269
1801 - 1873
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,270
1946 - 2000
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,271
1917 - 1966
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,272
Among people born in 1892, Rebecca West ranks 115. Before her are Takeo Takagi, Mahidol Adulyadej, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Richard Aldington, Herman Potočnik, and Alfred Lunt. After her are Reiner Stahel, Karl Lennart Oesch, Roberto Farinacci, Carl Panzram, Henry Darger, and Mabel Normand. Among people deceased in 1983, Rebecca West ranks 80. Before her are Jean Rey, Ferenc Plattkó, Sharof Rashidov, Lamberto Maggiorani, John Vorster, and Bernard Vukas. After her are Josep Lluís Sert, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Ibrahim Abboud, Hennes Weisweiler, Eric Hoffer, and Louison Bobet.
1892 - 1944
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 109
1892 - 1929
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 110
1892 - 1938
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 111
1892 - 1962
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 112
1892 - 1929
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 113
1892 - 1977
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 114
1892 - 1983
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 115
1892 - 1955
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 116
1892 - 1978
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 117
1892 - 1945
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 118
1892 - 1930
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 119
1892 - 1973
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 120
1892 - 1930
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 121
1902 - 1983
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 74
1898 - 1983
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 75
1917 - 1983
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 76
1909 - 1983
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 77
1915 - 1983
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 78
1927 - 1983
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 79
1892 - 1983
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 80
1902 - 1983
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 81
1898 - 1983
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 82
1900 - 1983
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 83
1919 - 1983
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 84
1898 - 1983
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 85
1925 - 1983
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 86
Among people born in United Kingdom, Rebecca West ranks 1,752 out of 7,765. Before her are William Sealy Gosset (1876), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), Julian of Norwich (1342), Tom Ellis (1978), and Randolph Churchill (1911). After her are William Beckford (1760), Elizabeth Tudor (1492), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Robert Blake (1599), The Edge (1961), and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738).
1876 - 1937
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 1,746
1647 - 1680
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 1,747
1835 - 1911
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 1,748
1342 - 1416
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 1,749
1978 - Present
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 1,750
1911 - 1968
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 1,751
1892 - 1983
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 1,752
1760 - 1844
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 1,753
1492 - 1495
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 1,754
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 1,755
1599 - 1657
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 1,756
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 1,757
1738 - 1809
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 1,758
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Rebecca West ranks 195. Before her are Richard Aldington (1892), Tobias Smollett (1721), Robert Southey (1774), Noël Coward (1899), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647). After her are William Beckford (1760), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), George Whitefield (1714), Orderic Vitalis (1075), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), and James Boswell (1740).
1892 - 1962
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 189
1721 - 1771
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 190
1774 - 1843
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 191
1899 - 1973
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 192
1806 - 1861
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 193
1647 - 1680
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 194
1892 - 1983
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 195
1760 - 1844
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 196
1868 - 1956
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 197
1714 - 1770
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 198
1075 - 1142
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 199
1878 - 1957
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 200
1740 - 1795
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 201