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Tom Rob Smith

1979 - Today

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Tom Rob Smith (born February 19, 1979) is an English author, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the author of Child 44, a novel about the investigation of child murders during the Soviet Union. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, and Smith has written two sequels: The Secret Speech and Agent 6. His first standalone novel, The Farm, was published in 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Tom Rob Smith is the 7,043rd most popular writer (down from 6,927th in 2024), the 6,802nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,537th in 2019) and the 729th most popular British Writer.

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Among people born in 1979, Tom Rob Smith ranks 591Before him are Andrew Triggs Hodge, Felicia Day, Albert Rivera, Zoumana Camara, Giorgi Gogshelidze, and Sa Dingding. After him are Alexei Markov, Jonathan Joubert, Pollyanna McIntosh, Osleidys Menéndez, László Bodnár, and Dmitri Bulykin.

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Tom Rob Smith ranks 726Before him are Noel Streatfeild (1895), Maggie O'Farrell (1972), and Helen Dunmore (1952). After him are Sebastian Faulks (1953), Kae Tempest (1985), John Mortimer (1923), Ken MacLeod (1954), Matt Haig (1975), Simon Sinek (1973), Dennis Potter (1935), Andrea Levy (1956), and Douglas Murray (1979).