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Seymour Hersh

1937 - Today

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Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for The New Yorker. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Seymour Hersh is the 2,632nd most popular writer (down from 1,375th in 2019), the 3,793rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,687th in 2019) and the 301st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Seymour Hersh ranks 2,632 out of 7,302. Before him are Rose Ausländer, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Vladimir Stasov, Martin Walser, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, and Sylvain Maréchal. After him are Alexander Kazbegi, Udo Lindenberg, Cornelius Ryan, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Han Suyin, and Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani.

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Among people born in 1937, Seymour Hersh ranks 181. Before him are Mikheil Meskhi, Manga, Paolo Bonacelli, Jay Rockefeller, Cornelis Vreeswijk, and Monica Zetterlund. After him are Don Bluth, Maria Teresa Horta, Valentin Bondarenko, Giovanni Arrighi, Maryan Wisniewski, and Gustavo Noboa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Hersh ranks 3,793 out of 20,380. Before him are Carmine Coppola (1910), Calista Flockhart (1964), Eric Singer (1958), Marie Laveau (1801), Jim Garrison (1921), and William Windom (1827). After him are Sean Michaels (1958), Phil Scott (1958), Scott Carpenter (1925), Peter Krause (1965), Eric Schmidt (1955), and Dermot Mulroney (1963).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Seymour Hersh ranks 301. Before him are Tom Peters (1942), William Peter Blatty (1928), Wayne Dyer (1940), Alice B. Toklas (1877), D. B. Weiss (1971), and Jim Thompson (1906). After him are Andy Weir (1972), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Terry Brooks (1944), Margaret Fuller (1810), Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), and Orson Scott Card (1951).

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