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John Patrick Shanley

1950 - Today

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John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Moonstruck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Patrick Shanley has received more than 807,959 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 21 in 2019). John Patrick Shanley is the 6,611th most popular writer (down from 5,802nd in 2019), the 12,952nd most popular biography from United States (down from 11,001st in 2019) and the 945th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The dreamer examines his pillow
One-act plays
THE STORY: The first scene of the play is a conversation between two lovers, Tommy and Donna, who broke up some time earlier but who are obviously still attracted to each other. Donna is enraged because Tommy, a would-be artist, is now having an affair with her younger sister, but Tommy, stretched out on his recliner (which, apart from a refrigerator full of beer, comprises the entire furnishings of his spartan apartment), is seemingly unmoved by her harangue. In the second scene Donna visits her father, a once successful artist who stopped painting at the death of his wife, whom he had bullied and betrayed despite his professed love for her. Combative and complex (but also very funny) the father sits and drinks and eventually gives in to his daughter's demand that he force Tommy to marry her or beat him up. Then, in the third and final scene, the father and Tommy confront each other, with results that are sometimes menacing, sometimes antic, with a lively discussion about art and women eventually leading to a sort of tenuous truce—and a grudging recognition of the responsibility that love, in its various guises, imposes. source: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1062
1987
Women of Manhattan
1986
Doubt
Catholics, Child sexual abuse, Clergy
2005
Defiance
United States, Race relations, United States. Marine Corps
2006
Beggars in the house of plenty
1992
Moonstruck
Motion picture plays
1986

Page views of John Patrick Shanleys by language

Over the past year John Patrick Shanley has had the most page views in the with 112,729 views, followed by Italian (3,834), and Russian (3,492). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (59.66%), Albanian (45.01%), and Egyptian Arabic (23.49%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Patrick Shanley ranks 6,611 out of 7,302. Before him are Sayaka Murata, Sarah Josepha Hale, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ann C. Crispin, Dulce Chacón, and Nat Hentoff. After him are Alan Dundes, Ingo Schulze, Parveen Shakir, Melissa Rosenberg, Nagaru Tanigawa, and Ananda Devi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, John Patrick Shanley ranks 681. Before him are Jørgen Marcussen, Joanna Gleason, Raffaele Lombardo, Ramon Solsona i Sancho, Hafiz Saeed, and Ann C. Crispin. After him are Anthony Grafton, Mary Pat Gleason, Scooter Libby, Bärbel Struppert, Lobilo Boba, and Gábor Csapó.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Patrick Shanley ranks 12,952 out of 20,380. Before him are Ruth Etting (1896), Andy Ruiz Jr. (1989), Gary Rydstrom (1959), Crystal Gayle (1951), Robb Flynn (1967), and Amanda Peterson (1971). After him are Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747), Alan Dundes (1934), Alex Skolnick (1968), Eva Amurri (1985), Linda M. Godwin (1952), and Joel Gretsch (1963).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Patrick Shanley ranks 945. Before him are Steven S. DeKnight (1910), Paul Dini (1957), Sarah Josepha Hale (1788), Paolo Bacigalupi (1972), Ann C. Crispin (1950), and Nat Hentoff (1925). After him are Alan Dundes (1934), Melissa Rosenberg (1962), Philip Freneau (1752), David Sedaris (1956), Frederica Sagor Maas (1900), and Neil Strauss (1969).

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