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Hugh Lofting

1886 - 1947

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Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician talking to animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Lofting is the 1,879th most popular writer (down from 1,565th in 2019), the 1,673rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,202nd in 2019) and the 179th most popular British Writer.

Hugh Lofting is most famous for his book series, The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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Among writers, Hugh Lofting ranks 1,879 out of 7,302. Before him are Miguel Hernández, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Masaoka Shiki, Zinaida Gippius, and Siri Hustvedt. After him are Tonino Guerra, Tristan Corbière, Chūya Nakahara, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, and Nicolás Guillén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hugh Lofting ranks 82. Before him are Taimur bin Feisal, Nikolay Gumilyov, Hiroshi Ōshima, Tarsila do Amaral, Shūmei Ōkawa, and Edwin Fischer. After him are Rudolf Schmidt, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Frederic Bartlett, Henry H. Arnold, Paul Radmilovic, and Amédée Ozenfant. Among people deceased in 1947, Hugh Lofting ranks 81. Before him are Karol Świerczewski, Charles Bally, Lilly Reich, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Heinrich Schwarz. After him are Arthur Machen, William Moulton Marston, Annie Londonderry, Elisabeth von Gutmann, Ian Hamilton, and Wolfgang Borchert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Lofting ranks 1,673 out of 8,785. Before him are John Christopher (1922), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736), Gemma Jones (1942), John Kerr (1824), and Joan of Kent (1328). After 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).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Hugh Lofting ranks 179. Before him are Peter Shaffer (1926), Anthony Trollope (1815), Lucinda Riley (1965), Walafrid Strabo (808), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), and John Christopher (1922). After him are Arthur Machen (1863), John Farey Sr. (1766), Renée Vivien (1877), Robert Faurisson (1929), A. S. Byatt (1936), and Mary Norton (1903).

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