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Seymour Hersh

1937 - Today

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Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seymour Hersh has received more than 2,041,009 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 22 in 2019). Seymour Hersh is the 3,557th most popular writer (up from 3,682nd in 2019), the 4,713th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,911th in 2019) and the 401st most popular American Writer.

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  • 49.93

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Seymour Hersh ranks 3,557 out of 5,755. Before him are Jonathan Littell, Frances Burney, Garlieb Merkel, Andrew Lang, Henry Bataille, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya. After him are Sanmao, Jorge de Montemor, Fleur Jaeggy, Vasco Pratolini, Maurice Genevoix, and Jean Desmarets.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Seymour Hersh ranks 246. Before him are Joseph Estrada, Gianni Celati, Gustavo Noboa, Gyula Zsivótzky, Johnny Dorelli, and Jiří Dienstbier. After him are Carlo Mazzone, Irina Solovyova, Harry Wu, Bobby Driscoll, Richard Marquand, and Givi Chokheli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Hersh ranks 4,713 out of 18,182. Before him are Gregg Allman (1947), Paul Shenar (1936), Grace Coolidge (1879), Leo Huberman (1903), Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757), and Susan George (1934). After him are Brian Krause (1969), Barney Kessel (1923), Carol Potter (1948), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), David Paich (1954), and Gerard K. O'Neill (1927).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Seymour Hersh ranks 401. Before him are Janet Asimov (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), Donna Tartt (1963), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Ralph Ellison (1914), and Jonathan Littell (1967). After him are Marta Kauffman (1956), Joe Haldeman (1943), Octavia E. Butler (1947), Gene Wolfe (1931), Charles Brockden Brown (1771), and Connie Willis (1945).

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