WRITER

George S. Kaufman

1889 - 1961

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George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical Of Thee I Sing (with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin) in 1932, and won again in 1937 for the play You Can't Take It with You (with Moss Hart). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George S. Kaufman has received more than 643,102 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George S. Kaufman is the 6,381st most popular writer (down from 5,862nd in 2019), the 11,704th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,397th in 2019) and the 860th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dinner at eight
1932
The royal family
1928
Hen lo tiḳaḥehu ʻimkha
Theater programs, Specimens, Teʼaṭron ha-Ḳameri shel Tel-Aviv
1947
Of thee I sing
Caricatures and cartoons, History, Librettos
1932
Dulcy
1921
Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre
American drama, Non-Classifiable, Children's Books - Young Adult
1939

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George S. Kaufman ranks 6,381 out of 7,302. Before him are Christopher Fry, Thomas Lodge, Terence MacSwiney, Sylvia Browne, H. R. F. Keating, and Anderson Cooper. After him are Waleed Al-Husseini, Raúl Rivero, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Steve Sem-Sandberg, Linda Woolverton, and Graciano Rocchigiani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, George S. Kaufman ranks 296. Before him are Vilhelm Wolfhagen, Marjorie Rambeau, Hugo Wieslander, George Hutson, Robert Benchley, and Moroni Olsen. After him are Annie Speirs, James Stephenson, George Walsh, Dorothy Phillips, James Wordie, and Vera C. Bushfield. Among people deceased in 1961, George S. Kaufman ranks 200. Before him are Anne Sewell Young, Albert Oldman, Dorothy Thompson, George Simpson, Kazimierz Laskowski, and Sumner Welles. After him are Arnstein Arneberg, Charles Erwin Wilson, George Formby, Maribel Vinson, Tommy Gorman, and Tony Bettenhausen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George S. Kaufman ranks 11,704 out of 20,380. Before him are Nicole Ari Parker (1970), Connie Hawkins (1942), Anderson Cooper (1967), Thomas Gomez (1905), Tim McGraw (1967), and Timothy Geithner (1961). After him are Robert Ellis (1892), Adrienne King (1960), Kitty O'Neil (1946), Harry Gallatin (1927), James Neill (1860), and Diana Scarwid (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, George S. Kaufman ranks 860. Before him are S. E. Hinton (1948), Joel Osteen (1963), Richard Price (1949), Jodi Picoult (1966), Sylvia Browne (1936), and Anderson Cooper (1967). After him are Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), Linda Woolverton (1952), Joe Paterno (1926), Leslie Feinberg (1949), Jennifer Egan (1962), and James Patrick Kelly (1951).

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