WRITER

Linda Woolverton

1952 - Today

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Linda Woolverton (born December 19, 1952) is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals. She is the first woman to have written an animated feature for Disney, Beauty and the Beast (1991), which is also the first animated film ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Linda Woolverton has received more than 499,656 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Linda Woolverton is the 6,387th most popular writer (down from 5,753rd in 2019), the 11,737th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,730th in 2019) and the 862nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Linda Woolverton ranks 6,387 out of 7,302. Before her are Anderson Cooper, George S. Kaufman, Waleed Al-Husseini, Raúl Rivero, Richard Henry Dana Jr., and Steve Sem-Sandberg. After her are Graciano Rocchigiani, Raif Badawi, Alfred Austin, Sonja Åkesson, Oles Buzina, and Marit Paulsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Linda Woolverton ranks 636. Before her are Allan Wells, Nora Dunn, Javier Cárdenas, Ed Lee, António Lima Pereira, and Arkadiusz Godel. After her are Wendy Turnbull, Hans Abrahamsen, Laraine Newman, Anatoly Baidachny, Brigitte Ahrenholz, and Louis Walsh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Linda Woolverton ranks 11,737 out of 20,380. Before her are Emily Osment (1992), Rob Morrow (1962), Steve Kuhn (1938), James Gleason (1882), Jason Derulo (1989), and Shelley Hennig (1987). After her are Daniella Alonso (1978), Benji Madden (1979), Hoot Gibson (1892), Betty Thomas (1948), John M. Fabian (1939), and Shauna Grant (1963).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Linda Woolverton ranks 862. Before her are Richard Price (1949), Jodi Picoult (1966), Sylvia Browne (1936), Anderson Cooper (1967), George S. Kaufman (1889), and Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815). After her are Joe Paterno (1926), Leslie Feinberg (1949), Jennifer Egan (1962), James Patrick Kelly (1951), Janet Evanovich (1943), and Joe Hill (1972).

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