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Leonard Woolf

1880 - 1969

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Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-11-25)25 November 1880 – (1969-08-14)14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Woolf is the 2,763rd most popular writer (down from 2,371st in 2019), the 2,302nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,760th in 2019) and the 256th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Leonard Woolf ranks 2,763 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexandre Herculano, Maurice de Guérin, Ion Creangă, Luis Cernuda, Jacob Israël de Haan, and Gustave Kahn. After him are Unica Zürn, Robert James Waller, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Giacomo da Lentini, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Neil Postman.

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Among people born in 1880, Leonard Woolf ranks 102. Before him are Adrian Carton de Wiart, Frigyes Riesz, Ivar Kreuger, Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, and Sholem Asch. After him are Philibert Jacques Melotte, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Marie Stopes, Mihail Sadoveanu, Jeannette Rankin, and Samuel Jones. Among people deceased in 1969, Leonard Woolf ranks 104. Before him are Eduardo Mondlane, Carlos Marighella, José María Arguedas, Johannes Dieckmann, Nicolas Grunitzky, and Maureen Connolly. After him are Volmari Iso-Hollo, Angelina Beloff, Ismail al-Azhari, Josef Beran, Constantin Ion Parhon, and Lajos Czeizler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leonard Woolf ranks 2,302 out of 8,785. Before him are Miranda Richardson (1958), Howard Jones (1955), Ernest Bevin (1881), Tom Courtenay (1937), John Stanley (1712), and Mike Rutherford (1950). After him are Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), John Morley (1838), Bob Wilson (1941), Roger Hunt (1938), Richard Long (1945), and John Major (1467).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Leonard Woolf ranks 256. Before him are Patrick O'Brian (1914), Wilfred Owen (1893), Branwell Brontë (1817), George Herbert (1593), J. B. Priestley (1894), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868). After him are Thomas Otway (1652), Taliesin (518), Robert Kerr (1755), John Webster (1578), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), and John Evelyn (1620).

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