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Arthur Ransome

1884 - 1967

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Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The entire series remains in print, and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Ransome is the 4,282nd most popular writer (up from 4,447th in 2019), the 3,388th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,176th in 2019) and the 373rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Arthur Ransome ranks 4,282 out of 7,302. Before him are Orientius, Ōtomo no Tabito, Juhan Liiv, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Ioan Slavici, and Besiki. After him are Frans Michael Franzén, Hal Clement, Julius Zeyer, Anna Haava, Qurratulain Hyder, and Graham Swift.

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Among people born in 1884, Arthur Ransome ranks 166. Before him are Martin Klein, David Bergelson, Alfredo Baldomir, Daniel Varoujan, Frederick Lorz, and Konstantinos Tsaldaris. After him are David Curtiss Munson, Pontus Hanson, Mia May, John Hutchinson, Fred Yates, and Dobri Bozhilov. Among people deceased in 1967, Arthur Ransome ranks 184. Before him are Väinö Kokkinen, Mischa Auer, Gigi Meroni, Eugénie Cotton, Bert Lahr, and Franz Babinger. After him are Óscar Diego Gestido, Ciro Alegría, Fausto Acke, Stanley Bruce, Henry Luce, and Art Langley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Ransome ranks 3,389 out of 8,785. Before him are George W. Campbell (1769), David Allan (1744), William Nicholson (1753), James David Forbes (1809), Jimmy Gardner (1924), and Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803). After him are Paul Bernays (1888), Steve McMahon (1961), Graham Swift (1949), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Joey Dunlop (1952), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Ransome ranks 373. Before him are Christopher Priest (1943), William Davenant (1606), William Hazlitt (1778), Raphael Holinshed (1529), Radclyffe Hall (1880), and Philip Reeve (1966). After him are Graham Swift (1949), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), David Almond (1951), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Walter Savage Landor (1775), and John Lyly (1554).

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