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Richard Price

1949 - Today

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Richard Price (born on October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. Price has also written screenplays for television dramas such as The Wire, The Outsider, The Night Of, and The Deuce. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Richard Price is the 6,374th most popular writer (down from 6,372nd in 2024), the 11,840th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,661st in 2019) and the 858th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Richard Price ranks 6,374 out of 7,302. Before him are Jáchym Topol, Tristan Taormino, Ion Negoițescu, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Māra Zālīte, and Alex Yermolinsky. After him are Satya Vrat Shastri, Olivier Weber, Susan Bassnett, Alexey Dreev, Malcolm Bradbury, and Elizabeth Carter.

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Among people born in 1949, Richard Price ranks 692. Before him are Ingrid Newkirk, Scott Asheton, Ann Reinking, Aleksandar Tomov, Christy Walton, and Warren Treadgold. After him are Olle Nordin, Zygmunt Kalinowski, Warwick Brown, Ulla Schmidt, Michael Wenden, and Leon Rippy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Price ranks 11,838 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry M. Jackson (1912), and Jodi Benson (1961). After him are Ed Flanders (1934), Jeff Teague (1988), Don Stark (1954), Lucy Burns (1879), Ivan Moody (1980), Betty Thomas (1948), Wilbur Thompson (1921), Timothy Ray Brown (1966), Mike Gravel (1930), and Fabiano Caruana (1992).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Price ranks 858. Before him are Thomas Beatie (1974), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), Gregory Maguire (1954), Jonathan Rosenbaum (1943), Martha Wells (1964), and Tristan Taormino (1971). After him are Charles Olson (1910), S. E. Hinton (1948), Lorraine Hansberry (1930), David McCullough (1933), Beverly Cleary (1916), and Damon Runyon (1880).

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