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M. R. James

1862 - 1936

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Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915). James's scholarly work is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered by many critics and authors as the finest in the English language and widely influential on modern horror. James originally read the stories to friends and select students at Eton and Cambridge as Christmas Eve entertainments, and received wider attention when they were published in the collections Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925), and the hardback omnibus The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1931). James published a further three stories before his death in 1936, and seven previously unpublished or unfinished stories appeared in The Fenstanton Witch and Others: M. R. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. M. R. James is the 5,420th most popular writer (down from 4,382nd in 2019), the 4,345th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,129th in 2019) and the 471st most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, M. R. James ranks 5,420 out of 7,302. Before him are Mark Strand, James Cooke Brown, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Mofolo, Iryna Vilde, and Brigitte Reimann. After him are Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Gabriele Kuby, Katarina Frostenson, Anatole Le Braz, Bano Qudsia, and Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová.

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Among people born in 1862, M. R. James ranks 139. Before him are Andrés Héctor Carvallo, Vladimir Burtsev, Concepción Aleixandre, Antoni Lange, Christopher Cradock, and Horatio Caro. After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, John R. Commons, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Adolf Bartels, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, and Gustav von Seyffertitz. Among people deceased in 1936, M. R. James ranks 173. Before him are Marmaduke Pickthall, A. E. Housman, Jaafar Al-Askari, Vladimir Bogoraz, Prudencia Ayala, and Lorenzo Mangiante. After him are Arthur Amundsen, Teresa de la Parra, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Jean Jacoby, Eugène Dabit, and Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, M. R. James ranks 4,346 out of 8,785. Before him are Virginia McKenna (1931), Ron Geesin (1943), Brendan Perry (1959), Mary Everest Boole (1832), George Alexander Macfarren (1813), and Alan Napier (1903). After him are Howard Donald (1968), Steve McClaren (1961), Eric Stewart (1945), Andy Bell (1964), Martin McGuinness (1950), and Niall Ferguson (1964).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, M. R. James ranks 471. Before him are Ramsey Campbell (1946), Aneirin (525), Pat Barker (1943), Anne V. Coates (1925), Donald Rayfield (1942), and Margery Kempe (1373). After him are William Cobbett (1763), Sax Rohmer (1883), William Muir (1819), Susan Blackmore (1951), Jonathan Stroud (1970), and Daniel Tammet (1979).

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