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Howard Fast

1914 - 2003

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Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was a best-selling (source: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/arts/howard-fast-88-best-selling-novelist-dies.html ) American novelist. He was also a television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Fast is the 3,092nd most popular writer (down from 2,939th in 2019), the 4,474th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,708th in 2019) and the 350th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Howard Fast ranks 3,092 out of 7,302Before him are Samuel Smiles, Antoninus Liberalis, Dodie Smith, Victoria Benedictsson, Can Xue, and Breyten Breytenbach. After him are Alexey Troitsky, John Edward Williams, Laza Kostić, Johann Heinrich Voss, Mukaghali Makatayev, and Fumiko Enchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Howard Fast ranks 181Before him are Grigol Abashidze, Ken Annakin, Max Wünsche, Gretel Bergmann, Sándor Képíró, and Toulo de Graffenried. After him are Zivia Lubetkin, Joe Shuster, Selahattin Ülkümen, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Théo Lefèvre. Among people deceased in 2003, Howard Fast ranks 147Before him are Khieu Ponnary, Robert Brown, Guido Crepax, Kerim Kerimov, Marc-Vivien Foé, and Henryk Jabłoński. After him are Hope Lange, Leon Uris, Selahattin Ülkümen, Nello Pagani, Hume Cronyn, and John Aston Sr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Fast ranks 4,474 out of 20,380Before him are Joseph Sweeney (1884), Alice Brady (1892), David Leitch (1975), George David Birkhoff (1884), William P. Rogers (1913), and Earl Warren (1891). After him are John Edward Williams (1922), Thomas E. Dewey (1902), Julia Robinson (1919), Stone Cold Steve Austin (1964), Jack Cassidy (1927), and Laurie Metcalf (1955).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Howard Fast ranks 350Before him are R. A. Salvatore (1959), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), Stephenie Meyer (1973), Jim Carroll (1949), and Elmore Leonard (1925). After him are John Edward Williams (1922), Richard Bandler (1950), E. L. Doctorow (1931), Gregory Benford (1941), Larry Niven (1938), and Jim Rohn (1930).