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Anthony Hope

1863 - 1933

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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name and the 1952 version. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Hope is the 3,737th most popular writer (up from 4,253rd in 2019), the 2,958th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,043rd in 2019) and the 338th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Anthony Hope ranks 3,737 out of 7,302. Before him are Gioconda Belli, Mikhail Prishvin, Francisco Coloane, Dmitry Likhachov, Peter Gould, and Anthony Berkeley Cox. After him are Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Helen Churchill Candee, Elin Pelin, Robert W. Chambers, and Iwan Bloch.

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Among people born in 1863, Anthony Hope ranks 101. Before him are Herbert James Draper, Milka Ternina, Richard Mollier, Arabo, Lucien Pissarro, and C. Aubrey Smith. After him are Black Elk, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Alfred Perot, Margaret Murray, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, and Enrique Fernández Arbós. Among people deceased in 1933, Anthony Hope ranks 87. Before him are Toktogul Satylganov, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Julius Klengel, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Gyula Krúdy, and Otto Stapf. After him are Robert W. Chambers, Chen Jiongming, Boris Rosing, Arnold Mendelssohn, Sara Teasdale, and José Malhoa.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Hope ranks 2,959 out of 8,785. Before him are James Ivory (1765), Alfred Deller (1912), Biff Byford (1951), FKA Twigs (1988), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), and Jonny Lee Miller (1972). After him are John Florio (1553), William Astbury (1898), Rita Tushingham (1942), Thomas Arnold (1795), James B. Francis (1815), and Richard Swinburne (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anthony Hope ranks 338. Before him are Rupert Brooke (1887), Ian Rankin (1960), Mary Sidney (1561), Leslie Stephen (1832), Georgette Heyer (1902), and Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893). After him are Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), Peter Cheyney (1896), John Ford (1586), Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915), Peter Mayle (1939), and Nancy Mitford (1904).

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