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Ernie Pyle

1900 - 1945

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Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernie Pyle is the 5,311th most popular writer (down from 5,183rd in 2019), the 8,245th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,436th in 2019) and the 614th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Ernie Pyle ranks 5,311 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodora Kroeber, Richard Wagner, Alain Bosquet, Duncan Regehr, Luiza Pesjak, and Axel Bakunts. After him are Edward Carpenter, Helen Thomas, George Grove, Terry Bisson, Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, and Lev Kassil.

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Among people born in 1900, Ernie Pyle ranks 260. Before him are Carlos Raúl Villanueva, John C. Slater, Alfredo Dinale, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Eino Purje, and David Hand. After him are Achille Souchard, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Alfredo Porzio, Anni Holdmann, Lajos Keresztes, and Nikolai Pogodin. Among people deceased in 1945, Ernie Pyle ranks 314. Before him are Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Richard Bong, Milton S. Hershey, Vikenty Veresaev, Kazimierz Prószyński, and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov. After him are Janko Jesenský, Xian Xinghai, Klaus Junge, Blind Willie Johnson, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, and Frederick Hovey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernie Pyle ranks 8,247 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Dorsey (1976), Richard Posner (1939), Anjanette Comer (1939), Mary L. Good (1931), Slim Harpo (1924), and David Hand (1900). After him are Ty Burrell (1967), Kenyon Cox (1856), Scott Caan (1976), Joshua Bassett (2000), Sandra Bernhard (1955), and Rush Limbaugh (1951).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ernie Pyle ranks 614. Before him are Richard Russo (1949), Elizabeth Hawley (1923), Jack Canfield (1944), Joe R. Lansdale (1951), Armistead Maupin (1944), and Theodora Kroeber (1897). After him are Helen Thomas (1920), Terry Bisson (1942), Carol J. Adams (1951), David Brown (1916), Michael Herr (1940), and Bo Goldman (1932).

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