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Cornell Woolrich

1903 - 1968

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Cornell George Hopley Woolrich ( WUUL-ritch; December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cornell Woolrich is the 2,325th most popular writer (down from 1,992nd in 2019), the 3,351st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,516th in 2019) and the 269th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Cornell Woolrich ranks 2,325 out of 7,302. Before him are Li Yu, Berthold Auerbach, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Sakya Pandita, Andrey Kurbsky, and Johann Peter Hebel. After him are Bella Rosenfeld, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Wieland Wagner, Suman Pokhrel, Aharon Appelfeld, and Posidippus.

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Among people born in 1903, Cornell Woolrich ranks 121. Before him are Amy Johnson, Alf Sjöberg, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Nikolai Voznesensky, Jan de Klerk, and Maud Lewis. After him are Richard Thomalla, Howard P. Robertson, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, W. Ross Ashby, Barbara Hepworth, and Walker Evans. Among people deceased in 1968, Cornell Woolrich ranks 86. Before him are Mario Roatta, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Darío Moreno, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Charles Munch, and Gabriel Hanot. After him are Camille Huysmans, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Tian Han, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Ryszard Siwiec, and Lilian Harvey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cornell Woolrich ranks 3,351 out of 20,380. Before him are August Derleth (1909), Will Ferrell (1967), Terry Crews (1968), Ed Ablowich (1913), William Powell (1892), and Edgar Snow (1905). After him are Stephen Baldwin (1966), Jimmy McLane (1930), Murray Perahia (1947), Harriet Quimby (1875), Neil Sedaka (1939), and Jim Kelly (1946).

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Among writers born in United States, Cornell Woolrich ranks 269. Before him are Winston Groom (1943), Alfred Bester (1913), Kathy Reichs (1948), Richard Brautigan (1935), Lydia Davis (1947), and August Derleth (1909). After him are Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Ben Shapiro (1984), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Annie Proulx (1935), and Djuna Barnes (1892).

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