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Arnold Bennett

1867 - 1931

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Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold Bennett is the 494th most popular writer (up from 3,233rd in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,347th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Arnold Bennett ranks 494 out of 7,302. Before him are Ivan Bunin, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Louise Glück, Phaedrus, Alfred Döblin, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. After him are Lysias, Traudl Junge, Marie-Antoine Carême, Margaret Atwood, Natsume Sōseki, and Władysław Reymont.

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Among people born in 1867, Arnold Bennett ranks 17. Before him are Pierre Bonnard, Arturo Toscanini, John Galsworthy, Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Nolde, and Johannes Fibiger. After him are Natsume Sōseki, Władysław Reymont, Maxime Weygand, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, and Enrique Granados. Among people deceased in 1931, Arnold Bennett ranks 17. Before him are Lili Elbe, Bhagat Singh, Hermann Müller, Carl Nielsen, Joseph Joffre, and Theo van Doesburg. After him are Geli Raubal, George Herbert Mead, F. W. Murnau, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Armand Fallières, and Nathan Söderblom.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arnold Bennett ranks 440 out of 8,785. Before him are Morrissey (1959), David Suchet (1946), Thomas Harriot (1560), Halford Mackinder (1861), John Ruskin (1819), and John Buchan (1875). After him are John Everett Millais (1829), Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Æthelred the Unready (968), Jon Lord (1941), Ian McShane (1942), and Elizabeth Woodville (1437).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arnold Bennett ranks 45. Before him are John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), Philip Larkin (1922), Thomas De Quincey (1785), Samuel Butler (1835), and Ken Follett (1949). After him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Thomas Paine (1737), G. K. Chesterton (1874), J. M. Barrie (1860), Enid Blyton (1897), and Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849).

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