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John Christopher

1922 - 2012

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Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012) was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Christopher is the 1,869th most popular writer (up from 4,130th in 2019), the 1,666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,961st in 2019) and the 178th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, John Christopher ranks 1,869 out of 7,302. Before him are Agathangelos, Georges Duhamel, Dobrodeia of Kiev, Paulinus II of Aquileia, Luis de León, and Prosper of Aquitaine. After him are Richard Ford, Yasmina Reza, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Miguel Hernández, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.

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Among people born in 1922, John Christopher ranks 122. Before him are Miloš Jakeš, Ferenc Deák, Sōsuke Uno, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, and Yuri Averbakh. After him are Günter Behnisch, Juan Antonio Bardem, Jonas Mekas, Michael Ventris, Francisco Aramburu, and Paul Scofield. Among people deceased in 2012, John Christopher ranks 109. Before him are Ignatius IV of Antioch, Sergio Oliva, Miljan Miljanić, Scott McKenzie, Maurice André, and Dave Sexton. After him are Tonino Guerra, Omar Suleiman, Giorgio Chinaglia, Paddy Roy Bates, Wilhelm Brasse, and Charles Durning.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Christopher ranks 1,666 out of 8,785. Before him are Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855), Fletcher Christian (1764), Sandie Shaw (1947), Reginald Pole (1500), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), and Paul Ritter (1966). After him are George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736), Gemma Jones (1942), John Kerr (1824), Joan of Kent (1328), and Hugh Lofting (1886).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Christopher ranks 178. Before him are Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Peter Shaffer (1926), Anthony Trollope (1815), Lucinda Riley (1965), Walafrid Strabo (808), and R. M. Ballantyne (1825). After him are Hugh Lofting (1886), Arthur Machen (1863), John Farey Sr. (1766), Renée Vivien (1877), Robert Faurisson (1929), and A. S. Byatt (1936).

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