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Ben Hecht

1893 - 1964

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Ben Hecht (; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Hecht has received more than 784,506 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Hecht is the 2,836th most popular writer (down from 2,196th in 2019), the 3,598th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,846th in 2019) and the 309th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 780k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The kingdom of evil
1924
Fantazius Mallare
1922
Gaily, gaily
1963
A child of the century
1954
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
1922
1001 [i.e. A thousand and one] afternoons in Chicago
Fiction, Chicago, Description and travel
1922
Nonsenseorship
2016
Fantazius Mallare, a mysterious oath
1922
Gaily, Gaily
Journalists, Correspondence, reminiscences, Correspondence
1963
The front page
Drama, Newspaper publishing, Journalists
1928
Erik Dorn
Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, American drama (dramatic works by one author)
1921

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ben Hecht ranks 2,836 out of 7,302. Before him are Hitoshi Igarashi, Adam Michnik, Joseph Delaney, John the Lydian, Pierre Grimal, and Ronald Harwood. After him are Peter Høeg, Fritz Mauthner, Delmira Agustini, Mariama Bâ, Fatma Aliye Topuz, and Lucius Afranius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Ben Hecht ranks 131. Before him are Madeleine Astor, Mina Witkojc, Rued Langgaard, Lajos Czeizler, Jean Acker, and Stanisław Szukalski. After him are Johannes Dieckmann, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Jorge Guillén, Charlotte Bühler, Louise Weiss, and Wilfred Owen. Among people deceased in 1964, Ben Hecht ranks 84. Before him are Gustav-Adolf von Zangen, Pietro Serantoni, Ebbe Schwartz, Otto Schniewind, Eric Dolphy, and Carel Godin de Beaufort. After him are Aleksander Zawadzki, Heinrich von Brentano, Otto Ciliax, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, Maithili Sharan Gupt, and Francisco Canaro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Hecht ranks 3,598 out of 20,380. Before him are Barry Manilow (1943), Frank Caprio (1936), Adam Baldwin (1962), Barbara Jones (1937), Peter MacNicol (1954), and Allen J. Bard (1933). After him are Bob Barker (1923), Robert Ford (1862), George Speck (1824), Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), and Jerry Buss (1933).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ben Hecht ranks 309. Before him are Carl Bernstein (1944), John Zerzan (1943), Varian Fry (1907), Larry Niven (1938), Carl Sandburg (1878), and R. A. Salvatore (1959). After him are William L. Shirer (1904), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), Jonathan Franzen (1959), Jack Williamson (1908), and Robert Penn Warren (1905).

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