WRITER

Seymour Hersh

1937 - Today

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Seymour Myron 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 2,225,333 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Seymour Hersh is the 1,376th most popular writer (up from 3,544th in 2019), the 1,687th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,701st in 2019) and the 154th most popular American Writer.

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  • 64.91

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Seymour Hersh ranks 1,376 out of 7,302. Before him are Hartmann Schedel, Joanot Martorell, Hartmann von Aue, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Rex Stout, and Robert Wilson. After him are Viktor Suvorov, Robert Browning, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and Mario Benedetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Seymour Hersh ranks 82. Before him are Joseph Nye, Thomas Nagel, Valentin Pavlov, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, and Jerry Reed. After him are Roberta Flack, Richard Møller Nielsen, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Naji al-Ali, Yoshirō Mori, and Maryse Condé.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Hersh ranks 1,687 out of 20,380. Before him are Rex Stout (1886), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Robert Wilson (1941), Jerry Reed (1937), Maria Mitchell (1818), and Ralph Bellamy (1904). After him are Diane Lane (1965), Alan Kay (1940), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Griffin Dunne (1955), Lee Iacocca (1924), and Rosanna Arquette (1959).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Seymour Hersh ranks 154. Before him are Maria Shriver (1955), Jean M. Auel (1936), Thornton Wilder (1897), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Rex Stout (1886), and Robert Wilson (1941). After him are Don DeLillo (1936), Robin Hobb (1952), Robert Bloch (1917), Virginia Henderson (1897), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), and Elizabeth George (1949).

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