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Syd Field

1935 - 2013

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Sydney Alvin Field (December 19, 1935 – November 17, 2013) was an American author and speaker who wrote several books on screenwriting, the first being Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Dell Publishing, 1979). He led workshops and seminars about producing salable screenplays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Syd Field has received more than 238,562 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Syd Field is the 2,728th most popular writer (up from 2,861st in 2019), the 3,564th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,664th in 2019) and the 318th most popular American Writer.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Syd Field ranks 2,728 out of 5,755Before him are Matthias Claudius, Ibn Manzur, Itzhak Katzenelson, Angela Carter, Venedikt Yerofeyev, and Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon. After him are Karel Havlíček Borovský, Richard Bandler, Pierre Benoit, Labīd, Samuel Smiles, and Anna Sewell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Syd Field ranks 162Before him are Lola Novaković, Ken Kercheval, Dudley Moore, Herb Alpert, Yakov Sinai, and Peter Boyle. After him are Martti Talvela, Judith Reisman, Lisa Gastoni, Milena Vukotic, Denise Perrier, and Jacques Poos. Among people deceased in 2013, Syd Field ranks 164Before him are Elmore Leonard, Jim Kelly, Anatoly Onoprienko, Lau Kar-leung, Julie Harris, and Ronnie Biggs. After him are Armando Trovajoli, Halton Arp, Michael Ansara, Francis Hong Yong-ho, S. N. Goenka, and Eero Mäntyranta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Syd Field ranks 3,564 out of 18,182Before him are Ahmad Jamal (1930), Christopher Meloni (1961), Marsha Hunt (1917), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), and Billie Eilish (2001). After him are Gloria Leonard (1940), Luther Burbank (1849), Julie London (1926), Richard Bandler (1950), Mary Tyler Moore (1936), and R. Budd Dwyer (1939).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Syd Field ranks 318Before him are Erica Jong (1942), Edward Gorey (1925), Edward Bellamy (1850), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), and Brian Herbert (1947). After him are Richard Bandler (1950), Hal Clement (1922), Joyce Meyer (1943), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Paul Gallico (1897), and L. Sprague de Camp (1907).