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Harry Harrison

1925 - 2012

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Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Harrison is the 1,355th most popular writer (down from 1,228th in 2019), the 1,973rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,445th in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Writer.

Harry Harrison is most famous for his novel Make Room! Make Room!, which was the basis for the 1973 film Soylent Green.

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Among writers, Harry Harrison ranks 1,355 out of 7,302. Before him are Yan Fu, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Paul Scarron, Fredric Brown, David C. H. Austin, and Norman Mailer. After him are Jakob Wassermann, Ethel Voynich, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Cassius Longinus, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Li Qingzhao.

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Among people born in 1925, Harry Harrison ranks 100. Before him are Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Toshio Iwatani, Gabriele Ferzetti, Charles Chaplin Jr., Sufi Abu Taleb, and Hildegard Knef. After him are Moshe Arens, Olof Thunberg, Dettmar Cramer, William Styron, Michel Bouquet, and Katherine MacGregor. Among people deceased in 2012, Harry Harrison ranks 80. Before him are Richard Lynch, Chavela Vargas, Ben Gazzara, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Helmut Haller, and Hans Werner Henze. After him are Chris Marker, Sergey Sokolov, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Assef Shawkat, Haji Mohammad Chamkani, and Herbert Lom.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Harrison ranks 1,973 out of 20,380. Before him are John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Griffin Dunne (1955), Fredric Brown (1906), Georgina Spelvin (1936), Robert Ryan (1909), and Norman Mailer (1923). After him are Temple Grandin (1947), Matt Bomer (1977), Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Eugene Fama (1939), and Nina Hartley (1959).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harry Harrison ranks 159. Before him are Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Nora Roberts (1950), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Fredric Brown (1906), and Norman Mailer (1923). After him are James Patterson (1947), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Clive Cussler (1931), James Baldwin (1924), William Styron (1925), and Poul Anderson (1926).

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