WRITER

Harry Harrison

1925 - 2012

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Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Harrison has received more than 67,875 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Harrison is the 1,229th most popular writer (down from 1,105th in 2019), the 1,445th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,344th in 2019) and the 135th most popular American Writer.

Harry Harrison is most famous for his novel Make Room! Make Room!, which was the basis for the 1973 film Soylent Green.

Memorability Metrics

  • 68k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Planet of the Damned
Fiction
72 HOURS IN HELL! Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once -- but they were something else now. The Magter had only one desire -- to kill everything, themselves, their planet, the universe if they could. Brion Brandd was sent in at the eleventh hour. His mission was to save Dis, but it looked as though he was going to preside over its annihilation. PLANET OF THE DAMNED
1900
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
1970
West of Eden
Dinosaurs
The saga of two cultures fated to struggle for control of the earth: the Yilane--cold-blooded intelligent reptiles and the Tanu--warm-blooded humans.
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Harry Harrison ranks 1,229 out of 7,302. Before him are Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Sarah, Duchess of York, James Anderson, Brian Tracy, Giovanni Verga, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. After him are Juliusz Słowacki, Maurus Servius Honoratus, David Irving, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Blaise Cendrars, and Bhartṛhari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Harry Harrison ranks 84. Before him are Charles Chaplin Jr., Claude Lanzmann, Michel de Certeau, Hal Holbrook, Joshua Lederberg, and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. After him are Gabriele Ferzetti, Sufi Abu Taleb, Paul Greengard, Willi Herold, Bill Haley, and Baruch Samuel Blumberg. Among people deceased in 2012, Harry Harrison ranks 66. Before him are Etta James, Chavela Vargas, Rodney King, Helmut Haller, Bingu wa Mutharika, and Joseph Murray. After him are Renato Dulbecco, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Chris Marker, David Kelly, Warda Al-Jazairia, and Gustav Leonhardt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Harrison ranks 1,445 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Whittaker (1920), Peter Eisenman (1932), Rene Russo (1954), Andre Agassi (1970), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), and Phil Ochs (1940). After him are Kim Carnes (1945), Bob Gunton (1945), William Westmoreland (1914), Roberts Blossom (1924), Gus Grissom (1926), and Carroll Baker (1931).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harry Harrison ranks 135. Before him are E. Howard Hunt (1918), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Solomon Northup (1808), Dan Simmons (1948), Ida Tarbell (1857), and Martha Gellhorn (1908). After him are James Patterson (1947), Irving Stone (1903), Clive Cussler (1931), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Robert Sheckley (1928), and James Brendan Connolly (1868).

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