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Herman J. Mankiewicz

1897 - 1953

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Herman Jacob Mankiewicz ( MANG-kə-wits; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Mankiewicz was previously a Berlin correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily, assistant theater editor at The New York Times, and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herman J. Mankiewicz has received more than 2,548,019 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Herman J. Mankiewicz is the 2,897th most popular writer (down from 1,841st in 2019), the 3,657th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,385th in 2019) and the 319th most popular American Writer.

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  • 59.66

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Herman J. Mankiewicz ranks 2,897 out of 7,302. Before him are Yūko Tsushima, John Fletcher, Tom Stoppard, Francisco Ayala, Huseyn Javid, and Léon Daudet. After him are Walter Pater, Budd Schulberg, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Marie Corelli, Lev Rubinstein, and Jean Richepin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Herman J. Mankiewicz ranks 150. Before him are Paul Ben-Haim, Ram Prasad Bismil, Dirk Stikker, Lya De Putti, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Tan Malaka. After him are Lazare Ponticelli, Karl Decker, Paul Gallico, Nicholas Poppe, Otto Struve, and Lampião. Among people deceased in 1953, Herman J. Mankiewicz ranks 89. Before him are Jan Czochralski, Titta Ruffo, Nicolae Rădescu, Vsevolod Merkulov, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and Arnold Bax. After him are Uroš Predić, Friedrich Wolf, Kyuichi Tokuda, Vydūnas, Ethel Muckelt, and Hans Aanrud.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herman J. Mankiewicz ranks 3,657 out of 20,380. Before him are Bert Patenaude (1909), Alfred Worden (1932), Peggy March (1948), Stuart Roosa (1933), Annette O'Toole (1952), and Harold Sakata (1920). After him are Thomas Haden Church (1960), Budd Schulberg (1914), Leon Spinks (1953), Abbie Hoffman (1936), Liz Sheridan (1929), and Judith Light (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Herman J. Mankiewicz ranks 319. Before him are Jonathan Franzen (1959), Jack Williamson (1908), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Lucia Berlin (1936), Lawrence Block (1938), and Andre Norton (1912). After him are Budd Schulberg (1914), Tony Robbins (1960), Glen Cook (1944), Howard Fast (1914), Vince Gilligan (1967), and Paul Gallico (1897).

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