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Terry Southern

1924 - 1995

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Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terry Southern has received more than 626,488 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Terry Southern is the 5,651st most popular writer (down from 5,073rd in 2019), the 10,036th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,165th in 2019) and the 760th most popular American Writer.

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  • 630k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Terry Southern ranks 5,651 out of 5,755. Before him are Laurent Binet, Alastair Reynolds, Lew Rockwell, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Veronica Roth, and Anna J. Cooper. After him are Rick Yancey, Kento Masuda, Ann Bannon, Richard Price, China Miéville, and George Alec Effinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Terry Southern ranks 408. Before him are Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Tapan Sinha, Vajiha Samadova, Ralph Miliband, Maria Sander, and Daniel Akaka. After him are William H. Webster, Jeremiah Denton, Frank Church, Mohamed M. Atalla, Wendell Ford, and Wally Ris. Among people deceased in 1995, Terry Southern ranks 274. Before him are Margaret Woodbridge, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Víctor Peralta, Margaret Chase Smith, Iqbal Masih, and Peter Cook. After him are Grahame Clark, Frank Perry, Art Mollner, Art Taylor, Paul Eddington, and Einari Teräsvirta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Terry Southern ranks 10,036 out of 18,182. Before him are Tammy Grimes (1934), Jeanie MacPherson (1886), Kirk Acevedo (1971), DeAndre Yedlin (1993), Diamond Dallas Page (1956), and Harriet Sansom Harris (1955). After him are Richard Rush (1780), Rick Yancey (1962), Bobby Lashley (1976), Rob Estes (1963), Trini Alvarado (1967), and Anne Smith (1959).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Terry Southern ranks 760. Before him are Naomi Wolf (1962), Wallace Stegner (1909), William Inge (1913), Lew Rockwell (1944), Veronica Roth (1988), and Anna J. Cooper (1858). After him are Rick Yancey (1962), Ann Bannon (1932), Richard Price (1949), George Alec Effinger (1947), Tim O'Brien (1946), and Arthur Laurents (1917).

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