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Eric Linklater

1899 - 1974

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Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Linklater is the 6,684th most popular writer (down from 6,538th in 2019), the 6,241st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,825th in 2019) and the 692nd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Eric Linklater ranks 6,684 out of 7,302. Before him are Jeff Noon, Chris Hedges, Kerry Kennedy, Jane Taylor, Sayaka Murata, and Catherine Asaro. After him are Wolf Blitzer, Alexandre del Valle, Katharine Lee Bates, Pınar Selek, David Gerrold, and Fatou Diome.

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Among people born in 1899, Eric Linklater ranks 322. Before him are Carmel Myers, Glenn Strange, Stanley Skewes, Randall Thompson, Percy Lavon Julian, and Walter Crickmer. After him are George K. Arthur, Takashi Kawanishi, Genevieve Tobin, Allen Tate, Tom C. Clark, and Gertrude Berg. Among people deceased in 1974, Eric Linklater ranks 260. Before him are Ilona Massey, Tina Brooks, Mary Forbes, Vlasta Děkanová, Gabriel Thorstensen, and Dorothy Fields. After him are Anders Lange, John Crowe Ransom, Norman Kirk, Ernest Gruening, Johnny Mack Brown, and Barbara Jo Allen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Linklater ranks 6,243 out of 8,785. Before him are Damien Magee (1945), Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947), Sydney Camm (1893), Charles Ingram (1963), David Kelly (1944), and Simon Wells (1961). After him are Daley Thompson (1958), Martin Atkinson (1971), Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800), Rachel Whiteread (1963), Nigel Olsson (1949), and Carrie Johnson (1988).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eric Linklater ranks 692. Before him are Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802), Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981), Mary Russell Mitford (1787), Ronald Firbank (1886), Jeff Noon (1957), and Jane Taylor (1783). After him are James Kelman (1946), Sara Ahmed (1969), Irving Finkel (1951), John Suckling (1609), Clemence Dane (1888), and Victoria Hislop (1959).

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