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Ed McBain

1926 - 2005

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Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre. His other notable works include The Blackboard Jungle, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a troubled inner-city school, which was adapted into a hit 1955 film of the same name. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds, based on the Daphne du Maurier short story. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ed McBain is the 726th most popular writer (up from 2,119th in 2019), the 952nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,660th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Ed McBain ranks 726 out of 7,302. Before him are Marie de France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Witold Gombrowicz, Pietro Bembo, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Tirso de Molina. After him are Columella, Theodore the Studite, Lucan, Jerry Falwell, Robert Burton, and Clemens Brentano.

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Among people born in 1926, Ed McBain ranks 45. Before him are John Coltrane, Ingeborg Bachmann, David Attenborough, Jack Brabham, Necmettin Erbakan, and Tsung-Dao Lee. After him are Mel Brooks, Louise Hay, Aaron Klug, Alcides Ghiggia, Neal Cassady, and Richard Crenna. Among people deceased in 2005, Ed McBain ranks 29. Before him are Jack Kilby, Joseph Rotblat, Ernst Mayr, Zdzisław Beksiński, Ezer Weizman, and Aslan Maskhadov. After him are Pat Morita, Henry Taube, Lucien Laurent, Milton Obote, Maria Schell, and Philip Johnson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed McBain ranks 952 out of 20,380. Before him are Alvin York (1887), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Matt Damon (1970), John Gavin (1931), Les Paul (1915), and Jared Diamond (1937). After him are Mel Brooks (1926), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971), Andrew Tate (1986), Barry Nelson (1917), Michael Landon (1936), and Jean Seberg (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ed McBain ranks 76. Before him are Allen Ginsberg (1926), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Alvin Toffler (1928), Thomas Friedman (1953), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), and John Irving (1942). After him are Louise Hay (1926), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Neal Cassady (1926), H. L. Mencken (1880), Marilyn vos Savant (1946), and Dashiell Hammett (1894).

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