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Rebecca West

1892 - 1983

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Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rebecca West is the 2,515th most popular writer (down from 2,213th in 2019), the 2,134th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,649th in 2019) and the 240th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Rebecca West ranks 2,515 out of 7,302. Before her are Al-Farazdaq, Pascal Quignard, Jean Astruc, Jack Williamson, George Whitefield, and Isak Samokovlija. After her are Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Mohammed Dib, Jean d'Ormesson, Terence McKenna, Sogyal Rinpoche, and María Kodama.

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Among people born in 1892, Rebecca West ranks 122. Before her are Stanisław Maczek, Djuna Barnes, James M. Cain, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Adolf Ziegler, and Eugen Meindl. After her are Corrie ten Boom, Paul Douglas, Hermann Breith, Edoardo Agnelli, Fyodor Raskolnikov, and Otto Nerz. Among people deceased in 1983, Rebecca West ranks 87. Before her are Marcel Dalio, Eric Hoffer, Louison Bobet, Joan Robinson, Bernard Vukas, and Hennes Weisweiler. After her are Donald Maclean, Corrie ten Boom, Ibrahim Abboud, Ángel Labruna, Juan López Fontana, and Charlie Rivel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rebecca West ranks 2,134 out of 8,785. Before her are Noel Gallagher (1967), Robert Morrison (1782), Francesca Annis (1945), Ian St John (1938), Sam Worthington (1976), and George Whitefield (1714). After her are Archibald Leitch (1865), Caratacus (15), Donald Maclean (1913), Arthur Rostron (1869), James Dyson (1947), and Bernard Williams (1929).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Rebecca West ranks 240. Before her are Eric Knight (1897), Lytton Strachey (1880), William Auld (1924), Charles Mackay (1814), Stephen Baxter (1957), and George Whitefield (1714). After her are Donald Adamson (1939), David Crystal (1941), Walter Bagehot (1826), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Michael Grant (1914), and Thomas Percy (1729).

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