WRITER

Sidney Howard

1891 - 1939

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Sidney Coe Howard (June 26, 1891 – August 23, 1939) was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Howard has received more than 470,690 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Sidney Howard is the 5,011th most popular writer (down from 4,284th in 2019), the 7,037th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,922nd in 2019) and the 558th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sidney Howard ranks 5,011 out of 7,302. Before him are Dany Laferrière, Joseba Sarrionandia, Gabriel Aresti, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Ramón J. Sender, and Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. After him are Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Margery Allingham, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Anna Maria Ortese, Joanna Russ, and Paul Theroux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Sidney Howard ranks 219. Before him are Hélène Sparrow, Isak Abrahamsen, Yvette Andréyor, William Christian Bullitt Jr., Victor Varconi, and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska. After him are Leo Burnett, Charley Toorop, Virgilio Fossati, Zofia Stryjeńska, Zoltán Mechlovits, and Issay Dobrowen. Among people deceased in 1939, Sidney Howard ranks 133. Before him are Madeleine Pelletier, Ford Sterling, Platon Oyunsky, Halil Pasha, Prosper Bruggeman, and William Mitchell Ramsay. After him are Lois Weber, Bautista Saavedra, Boris Grigoriev, Arthur E. Kennelly, Sergey Gritsevets, and Hugo Jahnke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Howard ranks 7,037 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Travers (1936), Dorothea Dix (1802), Mary J. Blige (1971), Sheryl Sandberg (1969), Whitney Smith (1940), and Roman Reigns (1985). After him are Lois Weber (1879), William S. Hart (1864), Dick Savitt (1927), Ron DeSantis (1978), Arthur Harnden (1924), and Joshua Chamberlain (1828).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sidney Howard ranks 558. Before him are Mary Oliver (1935), Paula Fox (1923), Eben Alexander (1953), Frank Belknap Long (1901), William Dean Howells (1837), and Kenneth Copeland (1936). After him are Joanna Russ (1937), Paul Theroux (1941), William Gibson (1914), Chris Van Allsburg (1949), Walter J. Ong (1912), and Peter S. Beagle (1939).

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