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A. J. Cronin

1896 - 1981

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Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine and helped to inspire the National Health Service. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. A. J. Cronin is the 637th most popular writer (up from 744th in 2019), the 583rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 576th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Writer.

A. J. Cronin is most famous for his novel The Citadel, which is a fictionalized account of his own experiences as a doctor in the slums of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Among writers, A. J. Cronin ranks 637 out of 7,302. Before him are Gabriele Amorth, Kōbō Abe, Meera, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Aratus. After him are Allen Ginsberg, Hermann Broch, Mikael Agricola, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Giambattista Basile, and Tibor Sekelj.

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Among people born in 1896, A. J. Cronin ranks 26. Before him are Milena Jesenská, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Howard Hawks. After him are Eugenio Montale, Leslie Groves, Donald Winnicott, Buenaventura Durruti, Anna Anderson, and Ernst Udet. Among people deceased in 1981, A. J. Cronin ranks 22. Before him are Béla Guttmann, William Holden, Marcel Breuer, Max Delbrück, Karl Böhm, and Natalie Wood. After him are Eugenio Montale, René Clair, Joseph Murphy, Joe Louis, Omar Bradley, and Samuel Barber.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 583 out of 8,785. Before him are John Turner (1929), James Bradley (1693), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), Richard Branson (1950), Samuel Johnson (1709), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772). After him are William Petty (1623), Joan of the Tower (1321), Edward the Confessor (1003), Jack Phillips (1887), George Green (1793), and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 62. Before him are John Donne (1572), George Eliot (1819), Robert Burns (1759), Harold Pinter (1930), Samuel Johnson (1709), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772). After him are Alexander Pope (1688), A. A. Milne (1882), Gerald Gardner (1884), Daphne du Maurier (1907), Walter Raleigh (1554), and Muriel Spark (1918).

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