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William Makepeace Thackeray

1811 - 1863

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William Makepeace Thackeray ( THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick. Thackeray was born in Calcutta, British India, and was sent to England after his father's death in 1815. He studied at various schools and briefly attended Trinity College, Cambridge, before leaving to travel Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Makepeace Thackeray is the 591st most popular writer (up from 638th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from India (down from 76th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Writer.

William Makepeace Thackeray is most famous for his satirical novel Vanity Fair, which is a fictional account of the lives of the upper class in England during the Napoleonic era.

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Among writers, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 591 out of 7,302. Before him are Gaston Leroux, Patrick Süskind, Khaled al-Asaad, Bohumil Hrabal, Gérard de Nerval, and George Eliot. After him are Georges Perec, Antoine François Prévost, Denis of Portugal, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Su Shi, and Robert Burns.

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Among people born in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 8. Before him are Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, Urbain Le Verrier, Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, and Théophile Gautier. After him are Isaac Singer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Vissarion Belinsky, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, and François Achille Bazaine. Among people deceased in 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 6. Before him are Eugène Delacroix, Stonewall Jackson, Jacob Grimm, Dost Mohammad Khan, and Frederick VII of Denmark. After him are Sa'id of Egypt, Horace Vernet, Jakob Steiner, Alfred de Vigny, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In India

Among people born in India, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 90 out of 1,861. Before him are Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Sita (null), Julie Christie (1940), B. D. Jatti (1912), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), and Jahangir (1569). After him are Priyanka Chopra (1982), Augustus De Morgan (1806), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Maudgalyayana (-568), Aśvaghoṣa (80), and Sri Aurobindo (1872).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, William Makepeace Thackeray ranks 12. Before him are Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), and Savitribai Phule (1831). After him are Meera (1498), Premchand (1880), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), Vātsyāyana (300), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), and Basava (1134).

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