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Ernie Pyle

1900 - 1945

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Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernie Pyle has received more than 1,127,583 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ernie Pyle is the 4,825th most popular writer (down from 4,346th in 2019), the 7,060th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,257th in 2019) and the 571st most popular American Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

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  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ernie Pyle ranks 4,825 out of 5,755. Before him are Semir Osmanagić, Ernest Lehman, Robert Lowell, Aminata Sow Fall, Manuel Curros Enríquez, and Enzo Biagi. After him are George Crabbe, Candace Bushnell, Mark Aldanov, Emmanuel Roblès, Johan Falkberget, and Guzal Sitdikova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Ernie Pyle ranks 229. Before him are Devdas Gandhi, William Haines, Colin Clive, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Alfredo Dinale, and Ludovico Bidoglio. After him are Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Alfredo Porzio, Alan Helffrich, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Roman Steinberg, and Christian Matras. Among people deceased in 1945, Ernie Pyle ranks 270. Before him are Boris Galerkin, Ferenc Csik, Vikenty Veresaev, Charles Williams, Ragnar Östberg, and Hélène de Pourtalès. After him are Richárd Weisz, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Charles W. Gilmore, Adolf Bartels, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, and Giovanni Palatucci.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernie Pyle ranks 7,060 out of 18,182. Before him are Bruce Arena (1951), Robert L. Eichelberger (1886), Jenny Slate (1982), Warren E. Burger (1907), Lillian Disney (1899), and May McAvoy (1899). After him are Hal Connolly (1931), Alex Raymond (1909), Joseph Mazzello (1983), Candace Bushnell (1958), Megan Boone (1983), and William S. Hart (1864).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ernie Pyle ranks 571. Before him are Tom Robbins (1932), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), Archibald MacLeish (1892), Jack Finney (1911), Ernest Lehman (1915), and Robert Lowell (1917). After him are Candace Bushnell (1958), Dee Brown (1908), John Keel (1930), L. J. Smith (1965), Kenneth Copeland (1936), and Karin Slaughter (1971).

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