WRITER

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 331,205 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tanith Lee is the 5,071st most popular writer (down from 4,205th in 2019), the 3,745th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,103rd in 2019) and the 428th most popular British Writer.

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  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The silver metal lover
English Science fiction, Robots, Fiction
Jane feels adrift in the upper class of her dystopian society until she meets a robot built for pleasure she suspects is more than the sum of his parts. Can a girl truly love a machine? And can the machine love her back?
1981
Black Unicorn
Fiction, Deserts in fiction, Magic
Nobody knew where it had come from, or what it wanted. Not even Jaive, the sorceress, could fathom the mystery of the fabled beast. But Tanaquil, Jaive's completely unmagical daughter, understood it at once. She knew why the unicorn was there: It had come for her. It needed her. Tanaquil was amazed because she was the girl with no talent for magic. She could only fiddle with broken bits of machinery and make them work again. What could she do for a unicorn?
1991
East of midnight
Children's stories, Fantasy
1977
Forests of the Night
Short stories, English Science fiction
1989
Piratica
Juvenile fiction, Actors and actresses, Pirates
2004
The Storm Lord
WORLD SLAYER, WORLD SAVER— Dorthar was an empire divided, a land of master race and slave people, a realm where gods and goddesses woke to walk the land, carving pathways of terrifying destruction. Into this world poised precariously on the brink of doom, Raldnor was born. Raldnor, illegitimate son of the Storm Lord, tyrannical ruler of the land, and Ashne'e, priestess of the goddess Anackire. Raldnor, child of power raised secretly among those enslaved by the Storm Lord's conquest, trained in the arts of weaponry and the ways of power. Raldnor, who, seeking his lost heritage, would change the very fate of empires, as his thirst for vengeance fueled a war that would set the world ablaze!
1976

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tanith Lee ranks 5,071 out of 7,302. Before her are Edwin Atherstone, Heinrich Laube, Michael Cristofer, Cynewulf, Stephen Hunter, and Ion Agârbiceanu. After her are Wyndham Lewis, Hermann Kant, František Čelakovský, Mark Dvoretsky, Ghazaros Aghayan, and Leslie Charteris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Tanith Lee ranks 537. Before her are Malcolm Ranjith, Fabián Alarcón, Menachem Bello, James Rumbaugh, Firmine Richard, and Robert Hays. After her are Mark Dvoretsky, Timothy B. Schmit, Steve Forbes, Robin Dunbar, Meredith Baxter, and Louise Arbour. Among people deceased in 2015, Tanith Lee ranks 327. Before her are Ángel Atienza, Friedrich L. Bauer, Mwepu Ilunga, Gregory Walcott, Marília Pêra, and Johan Ferner. After her are Jean-Claude Turcotte, Martin Gilbert, Ron Moody, Csaba Fenyvesi, Mate Trojanović, and Jacques Parizeau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tanith Lee ranks 3,745 out of 8,785. Before her are Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750), Matthew Parker (1504), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Joe Wright (1972), Ninian (360), and Cynewulf (900). After her are Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Steve Redgrave (1962), Henry Edward Manning (1808), Robin Dunbar (1947), and Max Beerbohm (1872).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Tanith Lee ranks 428. Before her are Michael Hirst (1952), Joyce Mansour (1928), John Gower (1330), Eliza Acton (1799), Edwin Atherstone (1788), and Cynewulf (900). After her are Max Beerbohm (1872), William Davenant (1606), George Borrow (1803), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Anne V. Coates (1925), and Elizabeth Goudge (1900).

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