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Paul Goodman

1911 - 1972

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Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decentralization, democracy, education, media, politics, psychology, technology, urban planning, and war. As a humanist and self-styled man of letters, his works often addressed a common theme of the individual citizen's duties in the larger society, and the responsibility to exercise autonomy, act creatively, and realize one's own human nature. Born to a Jewish family in New York City, Goodman was raised by his aunts and sister and attended City College of New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Goodman is the 1,807th most popular writer (up from 1,864th in 2019), the 2,658th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,353rd in 2019) and the 215th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Paul Goodman ranks 1,807 out of 7,302. Before him are Stéphane Hessel, Augusto Boal, Ion Luca Caragiale, Eduard Mörike, Stephen Crane, and Minamoto no Sanetomo. After him are Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Pierre Reverdy, Theodore I, Anna Leonowens, and Ted Hughes.

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Among people born in 1911, Paul Goodman ranks 96. Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Leif Erickson, Qian Xuesen, Mark Bernes, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and Viktor Barna. After him are Jehan Alain, Zenkō Suzuki, Elizabeth Bishop, Maureen O'Sullivan, Teddy Kollek, and Maria Reiter. Among people deceased in 1972, Paul Goodman ranks 73. Before him are Arnold Jackson, William Dieterle, René Mayer, George Sanders, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, and Viktor Barna. After him are Maximus V of Constantinople, Stephen Timoshenko, Prescott Bush, Harold Rainsford Stark, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Ross Bagdasarian.

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Among people born in United States, Paul Goodman ranks 2,658 out of 20,380. Before him are LP (1981), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), Aaron Spelling (1923), Glenn Davis (1934), Daryl Hannah (1960), and Lynda Carter (1951). After him are Chris Evans (1981), Nan Goldin (1953), Big Van Vader (1955), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Pam Grier (1949), and Robert Ballard (1942).

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Among writers born in United States, Paul Goodman ranks 215. Before him are Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Jeffery Deaver (1950), Upton Sinclair (1878), William Carlos Williams (1883), and Stephen Crane (1871). After him are Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Philip José Farmer (1918), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), and Richard Ford (1944).

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