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William Makepeace Thackeray

1811 - 1863

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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick. Thackeray was born in Calcutta, British India, and was sent to England after his father's death in 1815. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Makepeace Thackeray has received more than 1,971,692 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). William Makepeace Thackeray is the 639th most popular writer (down from 469th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from India (down from 54th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Writer.

William Makepeace Thackeray is most famous for his satirical novel Vanity Fair, which is a fictional account of the lives of the upper class in England during the Napoleonic era.

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Notable Works

The Virginians
1858
The Newcomes
1853
History of Henry Esmond, Esq
Great Britain
1852
The rose and the ring
1854
The History of Pendennis
1848

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 639 out of 7,302. Before him are Edward Bernays, Curzio Malaparte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Saul Bellow, Clarice Lispector, and Daphne du Maurier. After him are Walther von der Vogelweide, Ivan Franko, Irène Némirovsky, Kōbō Abe, Alexander Pope, and Michael Crichton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 10. Before him are Théophile Gautier, Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Urbain Le Verrier, Isaac Singer, and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Vissarion Belinsky, Louis Blanc, François Achille Bazaine, Elisha Otis, and Ambroise Thomas. Among people deceased in 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 4. Before him are Eugène Delacroix, Jacob Grimm, and Frederick VII of Denmark. After him are Sa'id of Egypt, Alfred de Vigny, Horace Vernet, Franz Xaver Gruber, Solomon Northup, Jakob Steiner, Stonewall Jackson, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In India

Among people born in India, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 76 out of 1,861. Before him are Maharana Pratap (1540), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Gerald Durrell (1925), and Mithun Chakraborty (1950). After him are Maudgalyayana (-568), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), and Ramana Maharshi (1879).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 12. Before him are Salman Rushdie (1947), Tulsidas (1532), Ghalib (1797), Savitribai Phule (1831), Meera (1498), and Premchand (1880). After him are Lawrence Durrell (1912), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Basava (1134), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Tukaram (1608), and Vātsyāyana (300).

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