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Tanith Lee

1947 - 2015

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Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Society Derleth Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. She also wrote a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7 ("Sand" and "Sarcophagus"). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Tanith Lee is the 5,946th most popular writer (down from 5,071st in 2024), the 4,954th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,745th in 2019) and the 541st most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tanith Lee ranks 5,946 out of 7,302. Before her are Giorgio Faletti, Theodore Roethke, Jacques de Lacretelle, Raúl Rivero, Pavao Pavličić, and Bill Bright. After her are Antoine Blondin, Douglas Coupland, Liam O'Flaherty, Naomi Wolf, Judy Blume, and Eugenie Schwarzwald.

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Among people born in 1947, Tanith Lee ranks 726. Before her are Henryk Iwaniec, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Dieter Riedel, Jeanne Shaheen, Kinga Göncz, and Enrique Chazarreta. After her are Dave Arneson, Mike Krzyzewski, Yulia Ryabchinskaya, Cemil Turan, Peter Nogly, and Elena Solovey. Among people deceased in 2015, Tanith Lee ranks 424. Before her are Robert La Caze, Ann Rule, Sergio Caprari, Bruno Pesaola, Toller Cranston, and Rakhat Aliyev. After her are Sajida al-Rishawi, Darren Shahlavi, Jihadi John, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bob Foster, and Marisa Del Frate.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tanith Lee ranks 4,955 out of 8,785. Before her are Clarence Kingsbury (1882), Michael Drayton (1563), Humphrey Searle (1915), Theo Walcott (1989), Edgar Evans (1876), and David Hewlett (1968). After her are Thomas Phillips (1770), Leslie Orgel (1927), Doug Bradley (1954), Edward Alleyn (1566), Paul McGann (1959), and Frances O'Connor (1967).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Tanith Lee ranks 541. Before her are Paula Yates (1959), Olivia Manning (1908), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), David Storey (1933), Sarah Waters (1966), and Michael Drayton (1563). After her are John Gardner (1926), Anthony Shaffer (1926), Iolo Morganwg (1747), Dan Houser (1974), Antonia Fraser (1932), and Thomas Campbell (1777).

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