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Richard Adams

1920 - 2016

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Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at Oxford before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined the British Civil Service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Adams has received more than 969,561 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Richard Adams is the 2,048th most popular writer (down from 1,666th in 2019), the 1,611th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,300th in 2019) and the 171st most popular British Writer.

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  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Adams ranks 2,048 out of 5,755. Before him are Pir Sultan Abdal, Paul Adam, Fujiwara no Teika, Joachim Neander, Fred Vargas, and Herman Bang. After him are Taliesin, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Friedrich Rückert, William Moulton Marston, Pavel Kohout, and Miguel Delibes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Richard Adams ranks 129. Before him are Guido Cantelli, Zhou Xuan, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Albert Memmi, Michael Anderson, and Paik Sun-yup. After him are Yegor Ligachyov, Miguel Delibes, Dick Francis, Yevgeny Dragunov, Christopher Robin Milne, and Viveca Lindfors. Among people deceased in 2016, Richard Adams ranks 131. Before him are Rudolf E. Kálmán, Michel Rocard, Gato Barbieri, Carmen Pereira, Alexandre Astruc, and Hassan Al-Turabi. After him are Dragan Nikolić, Franco Citti, Ferdinand Kübler, Loris Francesco Capovilla, Héctor Babenco, and Juan Gabriel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Adams ranks 1,611 out of 7,765. Before him are Rædwald of East Anglia (550), Joe Davis (1901), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), and Penelope Wilton (1946). After him are Taliesin (518), Jeff Lynne (1947), Christopher Hitchens (1949), John Henry Poynting (1852), Trevor Howard (1913), and Hugh Fraser (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Richard Adams ranks 171. Before him are William Auld (1924), Eric Knight (1897), Walter Bagehot (1826), Gerald Gardner (1884), James Herriot (1916), and Philip Sidney (1554). After him are Taliesin (518), Frederick Marryat (1792), Kingsley Amis (1922), Patrick O'Brian (1914), Dick Francis (1920), and James Hilton (1900).

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