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Pamela Colman Smith

1878 - 1951

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Pamela Colman Smith (16 February 1878 – 16 September 1951), nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite Tarot (also known as the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith Tarot) for Arthur Edward Waite. This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers, and remains the most widely used today. Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pamela Colman Smith is the 4,296th most popular writer (up from 4,307th in 2019), the 3,400th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,073rd in 2019) and the 375th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 4,296 out of 7,302. Before her are Philippe Hériat, Bozorg Alavi, Dai Sijie, Malika Oufkir, Herbert W. Franke, and Petrus Borel. After her are Gerardo Diego, Philip Arthur Fisher, Maurice Schumann, Stanislas Julien, Art Buchwald, and Andrej Sládkovič.

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Among people born in 1878, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 178. Before her are František Janda-Suk, Leonhard Kaupisch, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Alexander Svechin, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, and José Berraondo. After her are Constance Collier, Peyo Yavorov, Giuseppe Adami, Rudolf Walden, Viktor Nogin, and Jean Becquerel. Among people deceased in 1951, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 126. Before her are Leopold Andrian, Carl Albert Andersen, Haj Ali Razmara, Will Keith Kellogg, William Birdwood, and Zoltán Mechlovits. After her are Katarzyna Kobro, Pauline Pfeiffer, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, Kim Myeong-sun, Karel Teige, and Yrjö Saarela.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 3,401 out of 8,785. Before her are Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Thomas Bewick (1753), Carole Pateman (1940), Edith Evans (1888), Anne Treisman (1935), and Thomas Gage (1719). After her are G. D. H. Cole (1889), Roy Jenkins (1920), Emil Voigt (1883), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Duncan Grant (1885), and Geoff Bent (1932).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 375. Before her are William Hazlitt (1778), Raphael Holinshed (1529), Radclyffe Hall (1880), Philip Reeve (1966), Arthur Ransome (1884), and Graham Swift (1949). After her are David Almond (1951), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Walter Savage Landor (1775), John Lyly (1554), I. A. Richards (1893), and Robert Greene (1558).

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