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Eric Ambler

1909 - 1998

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Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 23 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Ambler is the 3,248th most popular writer (up from 3,799th in 2019), the 2,639th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,698th in 2019) and the 295th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Eric Ambler ranks 3,248 out of 7,302. Before him are E. E. Smith, Jien, Abu-l-'Atahiya, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Suzanne Curchod, and Gaston Rébuffat. After him are Yasutaka Tsutsui, Qian Zhongshu, Tudor Arghezi, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Rutka Laskier, and Christopher Hampton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eric Ambler ranks 177. Before him are André Vandewyer, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Howard Da Silva, Martin Lings, Hermann Lang, and André Clot. After him are Dana Andrews, Claude Cahen, Bernhard Grzimek, Juan Bosch, Leyla Mammadbeyova, and Cilly Aussem. Among people deceased in 1998, Eric Ambler ranks 142. Before him are Michael Tippett, Jean Leray, Hide, Nguyễn Văn Linh, Otto Wichterle, and Theodor Oberländer. After him are Qian Zhongshu, Louis Dumont, Joan Brossa, Samuel Eilenberg, Edwige Feuillère, and Anatoly Rybakov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Ambler ranks 2,640 out of 8,785. Before him are James Blunt (1974), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), Donald Moffat (1930), Mark Williams (1959), Arthur Gore (1868), and Peg Entwistle (1908). After him are Tommy Taylor (1932), William Whiston (1667), Colin McDonald (1930), Robert Fisk (1946), John Tavener (1944), and John Miles (1949).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eric Ambler ranks 295. Before him are Jackie Collins (1937), Edith Pargeter (1913), Susanna Hall (1583), Charles Kingsley (1819), Andrew Lang (1844), and John Henry Mackay (1864). After him are Robert Fisk (1946), Alasdair Gray (1934), David Gemmell (1948), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Richard Baxter (1615), and Philip Kerr (1956).

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