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Tanith Lee

1947 - 2015

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Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Society Derleth Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. She also wrote a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tanith Lee has received more than 303,960 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tanith Lee is the 4,218th most popular writer (up from 4,525th in 2019), the 3,111th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,497th in 2019) and the 359th most popular British Writer.

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  • 300k

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  • 47.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tanith Lee ranks 4,218 out of 5,755Before her are Norman Smith, Alain de Botton, Mary Stewart, Ciro Alegría, Catherine Millet, and Fran Lebowitz. After her are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Andrej Sládkovič, E. E. Smith, Andreï Makine, Marek Hłasko, and İbrahim Şinasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Tanith Lee ranks 390Before her are Frank J. Tipler, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Afeni Shakur, Alfredo Cristiani, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, and Svetlana Toma. After her are Christian Piot, Tristan Murail, Steve Marriott, Goran Paskaljević, Peter Chen, and Candy Clark. Among people deceased in 2015, Tanith Lee ranks 246Before her are Pino Daniele, Henri Coppens, Ludvík Vaculík, Malcolm Fraser, Vlastimil Bubník, and Angelo Anquilletti. After her are Yvonne Craig, Jerry Weintraub, Robert Z'Dar, Lyubov Kozyreva, Dimitar Iliev Popov, and Corneliu Vadim Tudor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tanith Lee ranks 3,111 out of 7,765Before her are Israel Regardie (1907), Mary Stewart (1916), Genesis P-Orridge (1950), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Ernest Starling (1866), and Frank Wild (1873). After her are George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Janet Baker (1933), Jason Bonham (1966), David Dunbar Buick (1854), David Sylvian (1958), and Steve Bloomer (1874).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Tanith Lee ranks 359Before her are Graham Hancock (1950), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Andrew Marvell (1621), Anthony Hope (1863), Norman Smith (1923), and Mary Stewart (1916). After her are Christiane Amanpour (1958), Clare Hollingworth (1911), Robert Kerr (1755), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Alan Bennett (1934), and Thomas Middleton (1580).