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WRITER

Sebastian Faulks

1953 - Today

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Sebastian Charles Faulks (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009) and Paris Echo, (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care (2008), as well as a continuation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sebastian Faulks has received more than 575,355 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Sebastian Faulks is the 6,123rd most popular writer (down from 5,414th in 2019), the 5,729th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,102nd in 2019) and the 637th most popular British Writer.

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  • 580k

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  • 36.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sebastian Faulks ranks 6,123 out of 5,755Before him are David Sedaris, Vin Scully, Robert Bridges, Shirley Ann Grau, Parveen Shakir, and Miro Gavran. After him are Wolf Haas, Roberto Orci, Ingo Schulze, Kristina Ohlsson, Eric Linklater, and Leonard Maltin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Sebastian Faulks ranks 554Before him are Linda Lingle, Pete Hoekstra, Tom DiCillo, Nikolay Bazhukov, Naoto Satō, and Madhav Kumar Nepal. After him are Betty Wright, Tatyana Providokhina, John Sessions, Sam Kinison, Glen Ballard, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sebastian Faulks ranks 5,729 out of 7,765Before him are Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (2019), Jim Baxter (1939), Robert Bridges (1844), Anthony Taylor (1978), Mark Allen (1986), and Steve Clarke (1963). After him are Kate Dickie (1971), Dusa McDuff (1945), Peter Cattaneo (1964), Jonathan Glazer (1965), Pollyanna McIntosh (1979), and Jeff Astle (1942).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Sebastian Faulks ranks 637Before him are Nina Bawden (1925), Clemence Dane (1888), Charles Stross (1964), Hugh MacDiarmid (1892), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), and Robert Bridges (1844). After him are Eric Linklater (1899), Sabine Baring-Gould (1834), Tom Rob Smith (1979), John Mortimer (1923), Benjamin Jowett (1817), and Andrea Levy (1956).