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Larry Kramer

1935 - 2020

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Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London, where he worked with United Artists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Kramer has received more than 1,763,345 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Larry Kramer is the 5,181st most popular writer (down from 3,777th in 2019), the 8,010th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,082nd in 2019) and the 637th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Larry Kramer ranks 5,181 out of 5,755Before him are Gilbert Adair, Robert Menasse, Sven Delblanc, Charles Allston Collins, André Heller, and Eduardo Acevedo Díaz. After him are Tahar Djaout, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Eva Ibbotson, William F. Buckley Jr., Scholastique Mukasonga, and Michael Bishop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Larry Kramer ranks 375Before him are Frank Robinson, Carol Kaye, Andrew Viterbi, Alberto Mariotti, Bahaa Taher, and Billy Whelan. After him are Assar Rönnlund, José Antonio Labordeta, Óscar Chávez, Marcelino Oreja, 1st Marquis of Oreja, György Kárpáti, and Vicente Cantatore. Among people deceased in 2020, Larry Kramer ranks 502Before him are Alison Lurie, Jean Brankart, Günter de Bruyn, Robert Trump, Aleksandr Aksinin, and Detto Mariano. After him are José Luis Cuerda, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Giovanni Battista Rabino, Flavio Bucci, Carlos Campos, and Ardico Magnini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Kramer ranks 8,010 out of 18,182Before him are Dana Carvey (1955), Joan Van Ark (1943), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Ed Begley Jr. (1949), Rudy Rucker (1946), and Wayne Static (1965). After him are Dwight Howard (1985), Lucy Hale (1989), June Gable (1945), Bobby Hutcherson (1941), Randy Pausch (1960), and Dennis Johnson (1954).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Larry Kramer ranks 637Before him are Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), Christopher Paolini (1983), Alison Lurie (1926), Jerry Falwell (1933), Ann Coulter (1961), and Richard Wilbur (1921). After him are William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), Michael Bishop (1945), J. Michael Straczynski (1954), Elizabeth Hawley (1923), Robert Christgau (1942), and Daniel Goldhagen (1959).