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Lytton Strachey

1880 - 1932

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Giles Lytton Strachey (; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lytton Strachey is the 2,450th most popular writer (up from 3,002nd in 2019), the 2,080th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,190th in 2019) and the 235th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Lytton Strachey ranks 2,450 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodore Sturgeon, José-Maria de Heredia, Wilhelm Worringer, Eric Knight, Fritz Leiber, and Israel Zolli. After him are Samael Aun Weor, Maria Skobtsova, Pavel Kohout, Tang Xianzu, James M. Cain, and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Lytton Strachey ranks 91. Before him are Johannes Aavik, Leonard Woolley, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Joseph Trumpeldor, and Eric Lemming. After him are Eric Campbell, Lincoln Ellsworth, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Albert W. Hull, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Frigyes Riesz. Among people deceased in 1932, Lytton Strachey ranks 59. Before him are Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Rudolf Bauer, Emil Orlík, Kenneth Grahame, Paul Neumann, and Hovannes Adamian. After him are Reginald Fessenden, Farabundo Martí, Max Slevogt, Ivar Kreuger, Nureddin Pasha, and Arnošt Muka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lytton Strachey ranks 2,080 out of 8,785. Before him are James Wolfe (1727), William Hamilton (1730), Edward Cave (1691), Joan Robinson (1903), Eric Knight (1897), and Julian of Norwich (1342). After him are Malo (487), Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862), June Almeida (1930), Vince Clarke (1960), John Wetton (1949), and Louis Tomlinson (1991).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lytton Strachey ranks 235. Before him are John Marston (1576), Noël Coward (1899), James Boswell (1740), Irvine Welsh (1957), Arnold Wesker (1932), and Eric Knight (1897). After him are William Auld (1924), Charles Mackay (1814), Stephen Baxter (1957), George Whitefield (1714), Rebecca West (1892), and Donald Adamson (1939).

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