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Horton Foote

1916 - 2009

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Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, and the film, Tender Mercies (1983). He was also known for his notable live television dramas produced during the Golden Age of Television. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Horton Foote is the 6,640th most popular writer (up from 6,761st in 2024), the 13,347th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,822nd in 2019) and the 945th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Horton Foote ranks 6,640 out of 7,302. Before him are Lualhati Bautista, Ralf Rothmann, Charles Stross, Denis Johnson, Hajime Kanzaka, and Wolf Haas. After him are Phyllis A. Whitney, Maja Haderlap, James Truslow Adams, Sybille Bedford, Richelle Mead, and Nat Hentoff.

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Among people born in 1916, Horton Foote ranks 307. Before him are Rochelle Hudson, Paul Emery, Mark Stevens, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Raúl Héctor Castro, and Leslie Thorne. After him are William B. Saxbe, Irene Worth, Esther Victoria Abraham, Lucille Bliss, Tony Bettenhausen, and Shobhna Samarth. Among people deceased in 2009, Horton Foote ranks 397. Before him are Billy Mays, Ernő Kolczonay, Jane Randolph, Ed McMahon, Leo Rwabwogo, and Philip Carey. After him are Stanley Middleton, Stanislav Markelov, Vladimir Turchinsky, Arnold Stang, Alastair McCorquodale, and Stephen Gately.

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Horton Foote ranks 945. Before him are Virginia Hamilton (1936), Stanley Kunitz (1905), Justin Cronin (1962), Michael Pollan (1955), Rebecca Yarros (1981), and Tana French (1973). After him are James Truslow Adams (1878), Richelle Mead (1976), Nat Hentoff (1925), Lionel Shriver (1957), Geoffrey A. Landis (1955), and Joe Medicine Crow (1913).

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