# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-furst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:34.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-furst"
name: "Alan Furst"
slug: "alan-furst"
description: "Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called \"an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene,\" whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944."
tagline: "Novelist (born 1941)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1941-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             2.660785731925646
  historical:           7.30062
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alanfurst.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Furst"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "ألن فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "الن فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Furst"
    title: "Alan Furst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Furst"
    title: "Alan Furst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Furst"
    title: "Alan Furst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Furst"
    title: "Alan Furst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Furst"
    title: "Alan Furst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2830508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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