# Arnold Bennett

> He banked more money than any British writer of his era, churned out thirty-four novels and a million-word diary, then watched the modernists - Virginia Woolf leading the charge - dismiss him as hopelessly middlebrow.

*English writer (1867-1931)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1867-05-27
- **Died:** 1931-03-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1867 in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was steered toward law by his solicitor father but pivoted after clerking in London at twenty-one, editing a women's magazine before going full-time as an author in 1900. He moved to Paris in 1903, steeped himself in French literature, and married a Frenchwoman in 1907; the decade abroad loosened his crippling shyness. Back in England by 1912, he set much of his fiction in a fictionalized Potteries he called The Five Towns - realist novels like Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale that sold widely to ordinary readers. The accessibility that made him rich also made him a target: modernists scorned his popularity, and his reputation cratered after his death in 1931 from typhoid, contracted after drinking tap water in France. Late-century scholars revived him, recognizing novels like Clayhanger and Riceyman Steps as the major works they are.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 12.5 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 23.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 51.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
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