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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 739,137 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ben Hecht is the 2,203rd most popular writer (down from 1,896th in 2019), the 2,853rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,380th in 2019) and the 254th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 740k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ben Hecht ranks 2,203 out of 5,755. Before him are Kenneth Grahame, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Molla Panah Vagif, Giraut de Bornelh, Jens Fink-Jensen, and Ivan Yefremov. After him are Vilis Lācis, Adam Zagajewski, Judith Kerr, Victorinus of Pettau, Wilhelm Worringer, and Heinz G. Konsalik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Ben Hecht ranks 100. Before him are Miloš Crnjanski, Rahul Sankrityayan, Vera Brittain, George Ohsawa, Mikheil Gelovani, and José Calvo Sotelo. After him are Jean Absil, Alois Hába, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Władysław Strzemiński, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, and Madeleine Astor. Among people deceased in 1964, Ben Hecht ranks 68. Before him are Adib Shishakli, Hermann Breith, Flannery O'Connor, Samuil Marshak, Franz Alexander, and Julius Raab. After him are Wanda Wasilewska, Rauf Orbay, Carl Van Vechten, T. H. White, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, and Pierre Monteux.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Hecht ranks 2,853 out of 18,182. Before him are Jeffrey Tambor (1944), Linda Kozlowski (1958), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Stuart Whitman (1928), Michael Bolton (1953), and Tyne Daly (1946). After him are Timothée Chalamet (1995), Kamehameha III (1814), Doyle Brunson (1933), Jim Thorpe (1887), Robert Rossen (1908), and Ivy Lee (1877).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ben Hecht ranks 254. Before him are Archibald Gracie IV (1858), Harold Bloom (1930), Suzanne Collins (1962), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), John Edward Williams (1922), and Morgan Robertson (1861). After him are Margaret Fuller (1810), Richard Ford (1944), John Kennedy Toole (1937), Audre Lorde (1934), Terence McKenna (1946), and Jonathan Franzen (1959).

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