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Michael Blake

1945 - 2015

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Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Blake has received more than 13,937 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Michael Blake is the 3,895th most popular writer (up from 5,395th in 2019), the 5,045th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,792nd in 2019) and the 414th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Atlantic Monthly
2004
Encyclopedia of applied physics
Engineering, Physics, Encyclopedias
1991
Stories by English Authors
2003
Dances with Wolves
1988
Stories by Foreign Authors
2006
Bentley's Miscellany
Accessible book
*Bentley's Miscellany* was an English literary magazine published between 1836 and 1868. Editors included Charles Dickens (1836–39) and William Harrison Ainsworth (1839–1842)
1840

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Blake ranks 3,895 out of 7,302. Before him are Vitsentzos Kornaros, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, Simin Daneshvar, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Mahadev Desai, and Ceija Stojka. After him are Giulio Angioni, Mia Couto, Ferenc Fejtő, Maurice Scève, Adam Bohorič, and Friedrich von Bodenstedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Michael Blake ranks 329. Before him are John McVie, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Rita Coolidge, Willeke Alberti, Ronee Blakley, and Richard Hatch. After him are Tony Williams, Nils Torvalds, Geoff Emerick, Nuruddin Farah, Modestas Paulauskas, and Sam Anderson. Among people deceased in 2015, Michael Blake ranks 220. Before him are Alex Rocco, Karl H. Pribram, Ninón Sevilla, John Henry Holland, Revaz Chkheidze, and Nicholas Liverpool. After him are Dinkha IV, Theodore Bikel, Karl Josef Becker, Charles Pasqua, Walter Burkert, and Elizabeth Wilson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Blake ranks 5,045 out of 20,380. Before him are Anna Lea Merritt (1844), Cecil Taylor (1929), Lydia Davis (1947), Ralph Hartley (1888), Edward Stettinius Jr. (1900), and Kathryn Adams (1893). After him are Billy Paul (1934), Don Felder (1947), Peter Sarsgaard (1971), Jeanne Crain (1925), Ethel Merman (1908), and Ethel Catherwood (1908).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Michael Blake ranks 414. Before him are A. Merritt (1884), Marianne Moore (1887), Herman Wouk (1915), Margaret Weis (1948), Francis Davis Millet (1848), and Lydia Davis (1947). After him are Carrie Nation (1846), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Elmer Rice (1892), Elizabeth Strout (1956), and James Thurber (1894).

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