# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alafair-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:11:04.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alafair-burke"
name: "Alafair Burke"
slug: "alafair-burke"
description: "Alafair S. Burke is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is a New York Times bestselling author of fifteen crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister, and The Note, and two series—one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher; and the other featuring Portland, Oregon prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. She also co-authored eight novels with Mary Higgins Clark. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages."
tagline: "American novelist and legal scholar (b.1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alafair_Burke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.84
  momentum:             4.580838323353293
  historical:           7.776070666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/alafairburke"
    handle:    "alafairburke"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/alafair.burke/"
    handle:    "alafair.burke"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
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    handle:    "alafairburke"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/alafairburkebooks"
    handle:    "alafairburkebooks"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm3512328"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://alafairburke.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Алафеър Бърк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alafair_Burke"
    title: "Alafair Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alafair_Burke"
    title: "Alafair Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alafair_Burke"
    title: "Alafair Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alafair_Burke"
    title: "Alafair Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alafair_Burke"
    title: "Alafair Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2829481"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4687548"
    title: "Alafair Burke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump