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Melissa Mathison

1950 - 2015

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Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.Mathison later wrote The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), based on Lynne Reid Banks's 1980 children's novel of the same name, and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melissa Mathison has received more than 4,850,061 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Melissa Mathison is the 4,542nd most popular writer (down from 4,208th in 2019), the 6,400th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,929th in 2019) and the 518th most popular American Writer.

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  • 4.9M

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  • 46.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Melissa Mathison ranks 4,542 out of 5,755. Before her are Enric Valor i Vives, Igor Newerly, Damon Knight, John Gower, Tomás Eloy Martínez, and Robert Richardson. After her are Henry of Huntingdon, Jacques Roubaud, Peter Carey, Gyula Illyés, Richard Bentley, and Fedir Bohatyrchuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Melissa Mathison ranks 324. Before her are Mathieu Carrière, Mike Starr, Joseph Paul Franklin, David Lloyd, Markie Post, and Seyla Benhabib. After her are Nelinho, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Shota Chochishvili, Miguel Ángel Brindisi, Gabriele Salvatores, and Aloma Wright. Among people deceased in 2015, Melissa Mathison ranks 273. Before her are Colette Marchand, Józef Oleksy, Ferenc Kiss, Elio Toaff, Revaz Chkheidze, and Gunther Schuller. After her are Kayahan, Claude Criquielion, Richard Bass, Roberto Tucci, Patricia Crone, and Peter Gay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melissa Mathison ranks 6,400 out of 18,182. Before her are Dexter Jackson (1969), Evelyn Ashford (1957), Gregory Olsen (1945), Robert Hays (1947), Robert Richardson (1955), and John Shelby Spong (1931). After her are Kevin Sussman (1970), Henry L. Giclas (1910), Michael Sembello (1954), Victor Buono (1938), Alexander Payne (1961), and Stephen Allen Benson (1816).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Melissa Mathison ranks 518. Before her are Helen Thomas (1920), Alan Dean Foster (1946), Francis Davis Millet (1848), Sylvia Browne (1936), Damon Knight (1922), and Robert Richardson (1955). After her are Arthur Golden (1956), Timothy Zahn (1951), Richard Powers (1957), David Weber (1952), Chester Himes (1909), and John O'Hara (1905).

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