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Betty Mahmoody

1945 - Today

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Betty Mahmoody (née Lover; born June 9, 1945) is an American author and public speaker. In 1984, during a visit to Iran with her husband and daughter, he refused to let them return to the United States, holding them captive in Iran and subjecting them to constant abuse until she escaped with her daughter to Turkey in 1986. After she and her daughter returned to the US, she garnered media attention in 1987 when she published Not Without My Daughter, a memoir recounting her captivity in Iran. MGM-Pathé Communications adapted her memoir into a film in 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Betty Mahmoody is the 4,353rd most popular writer (down from 3,435th in 2024), the 6,468th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,383rd in 2019) and the 493rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Betty Mahmoody ranks 4,353 out of 7,302. Before her are Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Gordon R. Dickson, Geo Milev, Ciro Alegría, Anatoly Kuznetsov, and Vasily Trediakovsky. After her are I. A. Richards, Maurice Genevoix, Steen Steensen Blicher, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Louise Penny, and Gabriello Chiabrera.

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Among people born in 1945, Betty Mahmoody ranks 384. Before her are Francisco Rodríguez, Miriam Defensor Santiago, Iccho Itoh, Kent Karlsson, Alcindo, and Prawit Wongsuwon. After her are Philippe Rousselot, Raila Odinga, Kadir Topbaş, Christian Noël, István Juhász, and Ronee Blakley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Mahmoody ranks 6,469 out of 20,380. Before her are Kathryn Morris (1969), Tiny Sandford (1894), Carole Caldwell Graebner (1943), Big Sean (1988), Virginia Rappe (1895), and Pia Zadora (1953). After her are Annabella Sciorra (1960), Sargent Shriver (1915), Glenn Morris (1912), Gregg Henry (1952), James L. Peters (1889), and Joe Rogan (1967).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Betty Mahmoody ranks 493. Before her are Julia Quinn (1970), Camille Paglia (1947), James Blish (1921), Richard Powers (1957), Joss Whedon (1964), and Eudora Welty (1909). After her are Irving Wallace (1916), Diane Ackerman (1948), James Salter (1925), Connie Willis (1945), Kathy Acker (1947), and Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863).

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