WRITER

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 638,886 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Terry Southern is the 6,330th most popular writer (down from 5,631st in 2019), the 11,438th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,013th in 2019) and the 838th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The magic Christian
Fiction, humorous, Fiction, humorous, general
1959
The Magic Christian
Political Observation, Satire, Fiction, humorous
This is a prescient description of Donald Trump and the current American political fiasco, obviously written either with the use of a Time Machine or while in a prescient trance.
1959
Candy
Fiction in English, Young women, Sexual behavior
1964
Blue movie
Fiction in English, Fiction, Motion picture producers and directors
1970
Flash and filigree
Dermatologists, Fiction, Fiction in English
1958
Blue Movie
Fiction, general, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Terry Southern ranks 6,330 out of 7,302. Before him are Alyson Noël, Naomi Wolf, Henry Vaughan, Tsai Chih-chung, Richard Wilbur, and William Roscoe. After him are Stella Gibbons, Alberto Dines, Veronica Roth, Bill Prady, Kathleen Raine, and Brian Friel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Terry Southern ranks 469. Before him are Jeremiah Denton, Joy Page, Ron Staniforth, Nek Chand, William H. Gass, and Zsuzsa Körmöczy. After him are Ivan Udodov, Tapan Sinha, Louie Bellson, Jimmy Rogers, Vajiha Samadova, and Mal Whitfield. Among people deceased in 1995, Terry Southern ranks 309. Before him are John C. Stennis, Frank Perry, Burton Jastram, Ed Flanders, Iqbal Masih, and Harry Golombek. After him are Margaret Chase Smith, David Marshall, Einari Teräsvirta, Johnny Carey, Vivian Blaine, and Art Taylor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Terry Southern ranks 11,438 out of 20,380. Before him are George Dole (1885), Norman Dello Joio (1913), Doris Belack (1926), Wings Hauser (1947), Lucy Burns (1879), and Ruth Warrick (1916). After him are William J. Hardee (1815), Kari Byron (1974), Pamela Melroy (1961), Bert I. Gordon (1922), Jim Byrnes (1948), and Fandango (1981).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Terry Southern ranks 838. Before him are Sandra Cisneros (1954), Bill Bright (1921), Christina Hoff Sommers (1950), Alyson Noël (1965), Naomi Wolf (1962), and Richard Wilbur (1921). After him are Veronica Roth (1988), Bill Prady (1960), Pat Conroy (1945), Arthur Kopit (1937), Elizabeth Moon (1945), and Oscar Hijuelos (1951).

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