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Thomas Friedman

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Thomas Loren Friedman ( FREED-mən; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues. Friedman began his career as a reporter and won two Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s for his coverage on conflict in Lebanon and politics in Israel, followed by a further prize in 2002 for commentary on the war on terror. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Friedman is the 699th most popular writer (up from 3,690th in 2019), the 910th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,718th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Thomas Friedman ranks 699 out of 7,302. Before him are Sidonius Apollinaris, Ismail Gaspirali, Muriel Spark, Maurice Denis, Antonio Tabucchi, and Tatian. After him are Eugène Sue, Dietrich Eckart, Matthew Lewis, Stieg Larsson, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, and Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Thomas Friedman ranks 30. Before him are Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Teresa Teng, Kathleen Kennedy, Cyndi Lauper, Mike Oldfield, and Fatih Terim. After him are Cha Bum-kun, Thomas Bach, Hulk Hogan, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Andrew Wiles, and Daniel Passarella.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Friedman ranks 910 out of 20,380. Before him are John Lewis (1940), F. Murray Abraham (1939), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Chris Isaak (1956), and Tippi Hedren (1930). After him are H. H. Holmes (1861), John Huston (1906), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Farrah Fawcett (1947), Roy Orbison (1936), and Pete Seeger (1919).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Thomas Friedman ranks 73. Before him are Theodore Dreiser (1871), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Patricia Highsmith (1921), Allen Ginsberg (1926), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), and Alvin Toffler (1928). After him are William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), John Irving (1942), Ed McBain (1926), Louise Hay (1926), Sinclair Lewis (1885), and Neal Cassady (1926).

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