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Arthur Machen

1863 - 1947

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Arthur Machen ( or ; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." He is also well known for "The Bowmen", a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Machen is the 1,895th most popular writer (down from 1,731st in 2019), the 1,680th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,321st in 2019) and the 180th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Arthur Machen ranks 1,895 out of 7,302. Before him are Émile Augier, João de Barros, Rómulo Gallegos, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Hincmar, and Shirley Jackson. After him are Sulpicia, Branko Ćopić, Frederik Pohl, Anonymus, Jacint Verdaguer, and Cristóbal de Morales.

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Among people born in 1863, Arthur Machen ranks 57. Before him are Manuel Gomes da Costa, Gabriel Pierné, Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, W. I. Thomas, and Alexander Siloti. After him are Paul Drude, Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Hugo Haase, Paul Héroult, Paul Walden, and Abdul Karim. Among people deceased in 1947, Arthur Machen ranks 82. Before him are Charles Bally, Lilly Reich, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Nicholas Murray Butler, Heinrich Schwarz, and Hugh Lofting. After him are William Moulton Marston, Annie Londonderry, Elisabeth von Gutmann, Ian Hamilton, Wolfgang Borchert, and Alice Keppel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Machen ranks 1,680 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Maggie Reilly (1956), William Gull (1816), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Geoff Hurst (1941), and Thomas Lipton (1848). After him are Ealhswith (852), Edward Wilson (1872), David Chipperfield (1953), Emilia Clarke (1986), Zara Tindall (1981), and Orlando Gibbons (1583).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Machen ranks 180. Before him are Anthony Trollope (1815), Lucinda Riley (1965), Walafrid Strabo (808), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), John Christopher (1922), and Hugh Lofting (1886). After him are John Farey Sr. (1766), Renée Vivien (1877), Robert Faurisson (1929), A. S. Byatt (1936), Mary Norton (1903), and Dorothy L. Sayers (1893).

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