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William L. Shirer

1904 - 1993

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William Lawrence Shirer (; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what became a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William L. Shirer has received more than 729,734 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). William L. Shirer is the 2,404th most popular writer (up from 2,718th in 2019), the 3,105th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,492nd in 2019) and the 273rd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William L. Shirer ranks 2,404 out of 5,755. Before him are Menasseh Ben Israel, T. H. White, Alfonso Sastre, John Webster, Aleksander Chodźko, and Rosario Castellanos. After him are Winston Groom, Nennius, Charles Berlitz, Isabella di Morra, Hamnet Shakespeare, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, William L. Shirer ranks 120. Before him are Christian-Jaque, Wang Ming, Achille Varzi, Lidia Zamenhof, Tevfik Esenç, and James J. Gibson. After him are Ralph Bunche, Ivar Ballangrud, Seán MacBride, Yulii Khariton, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg. Among people deceased in 1993, William L. Shirer ranks 85. Before him are John Tuzo Wilson, René Pleven, Salah Jadid, Héctor Lavoe, József Antall, and Richard Jordan. After him are Frunzik Mkrtchyan, GG Allin, Raymond Burr, Sun Ra, Marian Anderson, and Monte Melkonian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William L. Shirer ranks 3,105 out of 18,182. Before him are Jonathan Groff (1985), Teresa Wright (1918), Willy DeVille (1950), Lee Hazlewood (1929), Charles Curtis (1860), and Harris Yulin (1937). After him are Winston Groom (1943), Carl Panzram (1892), Charles Berlitz (1913), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), and William Levada (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William L. Shirer ranks 273. Before him are Orson Scott Card (1951), Kate Chopin (1850), Johnston McCulley (1883), Robert James Waller (1939), Jacques Futrelle (1875), and Siri Hustvedt (1955). After him are Winston Groom (1943), Charles Berlitz (1913), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), Henry Darger (1892), Paul Goodman (1911), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860).

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