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Sarah Kane

1971 - 1999

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Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Kane has received more than 874,202 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Sarah Kane is the 4,645th most popular writer (down from 4,141st in 2019), the 3,330th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,047th in 2019) and the 374th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bargaining for King's baby
Millionaires, Fiction, Love stories
Just twenty more acres and millionaire Adam King would restore his family ranch to its former glory. So intense was his obsession, he even considered marrying the girl next door. For Gina Torino's father was willing to "sell" her in exchange for the much-desired land.Gina was aware of her father's manipulative bargain...and decided to make a deal with Adam herself. She'd marry the ice-cold rancher. He'd get the land. And she'd get King's baby.
2008
Crave
Drama, Mental illness
1998
Maggie and the Gambler
Social life and customs, Bars (Drinking establishments), California
1995
Cleansed
Drama, Drug addicts, Inmates of institutions
1998
Eternally (The Guardians)
Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
Reborn moments after Queen Isabella of Spain ordered her lover's death, Santos accepted eternal life in exchange for protecting humanity. For centuries, he's kept himself secluded in a hillside mansion. But all that changes one night when he takes in a woman who claims to have seen him in a vision.A dire prediction has convinced Erin Brady she will be murdered on her thirtieth birthday—and that Santos is the only man who can help her. Unwittingly drawn to the beauty who can read his thoughts and heart like no one ever has, Santos realizes she is his Destined Mate. And with the threat of her imminent extinction ticking like a time bomb, Santos suddenly has something worth dying...and worth living for.
2006
A fiend in need
Fiction, Romance, Demonology
It's only been a month since single mom Cassie Burke unexpectedly became the hottest demon killer in town-and already there's a price on her head and a website calling for her murder.Then a sizzling hunk of a faery shows up on her porch in need of protection. Cassie's happy to help because, after all, he is an expert love slave. Plus, he gets along great with her teenage daughter-a heroic feat in itself.After a few not-quite-chaste nights, Cassie knows why Queen Vanessa wants him back so badly-and why she's planning an all-out attack on her. Suddenly Cassie's wondering if she can fend off an entire city of demons-and if a little faery tail is even worth it...
2008

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sarah Kane ranks 4,645 out of 7,302. Before her are Vitaly Bianki, Cerverí de Girona, Erik Hornung, Virginie Ancelot, Levon Shant, and Ole Lund Kirkegaard. After her are Grace Aguilar, Margarita Aliger, Thomas Middleton, Mieke Bal, Hans Jæger, and Miljenko Jergović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Sarah Kane ranks 147. Before her are Gina Raimondo, Max Biaggi, César Sánchez, Ji Jin-hee, Renee O'Connor, and Dwight Yorke. After her are Imanol Alguacil, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sergej Barbarez, Gheorghe Mureșan, Will Yun Lee, and Mark Henry. Among people deceased in 1999, Sarah Kane ranks 184. Before her are Giuseppe Delfino, Paris Pişmiş, Toninho, Anahit Tsitsikian, Birgit Cullberg, and Rafael Iglesias. After her are Michael Aris, Einar Englund, Heinrich Schmid, Rick Danko, Regina Ghazaryan, and Peter Seeberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sarah Kane ranks 3,330 out of 8,785. Before her are Catherine of York (1479), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), Eric Sykes (1923), John Negroponte (1939), Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374), and Neil Aspinall (1941). After her are Peter Gethin (1940), Grace Aguilar (1816), May Whitty (1865), Thomas Middleton (1580), Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), and Peter Bonetti (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Sarah Kane ranks 374. Before her are Isaac Watts (1674), George Chapman (1559), Lydia Becker (1827), Gilbert Adair (1944), Ronald Knox (1888), and W. S. Gilbert (1836). After her are Grace Aguilar (1816), Thomas Middleton (1580), Taylor Caldwell (1900), Stephen Baxter (1957), Peter Ackroyd (1949), and Gillian Rubinstein (1942).

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