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Nicholas Meyer

1945 - Today

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Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and author known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature films, the 1983 television film The Day After, and the 1999 HBO original film Vendetta. Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during which he testified about Star Trek and San Francisco. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Nicholas Meyer is the 6,043rd most popular writer (down from 4,653rd in 2024), the 10,367th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,282nd in 2019) and the 758th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicholas Meyer ranks 6,043 out of 7,302. Before him are Ali Smith, Amy Tan, Can Dündar, Yury Kazakov, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Nedim Gürsel. After him are Farley Mowat, Lin Carter, Aleksandr Volodin, Dmitri Prigov, August Alle, and Katri Vala.

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Among people born in 1945, Nicholas Meyer ranks 588. Before him are Anthony Braxton, Vashti Bunyan, Bruce Broughton, Naftali Bon, Daniel Ona Ondo, and Manuel Chaves. After him are Besarion Gugushvili, Herman Cain, Kinza Clodumar, Ghiță Licu, Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, and Georg Volkert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nicholas Meyer ranks 10,369 out of 20,380. Before him are Laz Alonso (1974), Stacy Valentine (1970), William Smith (1928), Elihu B. Washburne (1816), James M. Kelly (1964), and Steven Sotloff (1983). After him are Mia Sara (1967), Aaron Lewis (1972), Mark Valley (1964), Lin Carter (1930), Laura La Plante (1904), and Mary Ford (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Nicholas Meyer ranks 758. Before him are Tom Brokaw (1940), Henry Jenkins (1958), Charles Brackett (1892), Tim O'Brien (1946), Amy Tan (1952), and Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815). After him are Lin Carter (1930), Mike Godwin (1956), Jonathan Safran Foer (1977), Chaz Bono (1969), Gustav Hasford (1947), and Michael Swanwick (1950).

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