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Georgette Heyer

1902 - 1974

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Georgette Heyer (; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgette Heyer is the 3,726th most popular writer (up from 3,727th in 2019), the 2,948th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,651st in 2019) and the 336th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Georgette Heyer ranks 3,726 out of 7,302. Before her are Georgi Sava Rakovski, Reginald Rose, Carolina Coronado, Evgeny Schwartz, Stevan Sremac, and Leslie Stephen. After her are Aphthonius of Antioch, Philipp Nicolai, Pavel Bazhov, Chairil Anwar, Gioconda Belli, and Mikhail Prishvin.

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Among people born in 1902, Georgette Heyer ranks 180. Before her are Sergei Khudyakov, Jayaprakash Narayan, Khuang Aphaiwong, André Patry, Herbert Feigl, and Mitrofan Nedelin. After her are Strom Thurmond, Daniel Kinsey, Eva May, Toivo Loukola, Kim Sowol, and Jack Sharkey. Among people deceased in 1974, Georgette Heyer ranks 143. Before her are José Miró Cardona, Egon Wellesz, Hertta Kuusinen, Kurt Hahn, Lev Knipper, and Else Alfelt. After her are Willem Marinus Dudok, Karl Sesta, Ernesto Vidal, Holger Meins, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, and Berdi Kerbabayev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Georgette Heyer ranks 2,949 out of 8,785. Before her are John Barnard (1946), Mary Sidney (1561), Charles Burney (1726), Ray Lankester (1847), Leslie Stephen (1832), and John Rutter (1945). After her are Tommy Flanagan (1965), Eunice Gayson (1928), Tom Hollander (1967), James Ivory (1765), Alfred Deller (1912), and Biff Byford (1951).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Georgette Heyer ranks 336. Before her are William Robertson Smith (1846), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Rupert Brooke (1887), Ian Rankin (1960), Mary Sidney (1561), and Leslie Stephen (1832). After her are Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Anthony Hope (1863), Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), Peter Cheyney (1896), John Ford (1586), and Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915).

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