# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-theroux
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:38:02.601Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-theroux"
name: "Alexander Theroux"
slug: "alexander-theroux"
description: "Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet. He is known for his novel Darconville's Cat (1981), which was selected by Anthony Burgess for his book-length essay Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and by Larry McCaffery for his 20th Century's Greatest Hits list."
tagline: "American novelist and poet"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             4.242073976221928
  historical:           3.577166666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ألكسندر ثيروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Theroux"
    title: "Alexander Theroux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%AA'%D7%A8%D7%95"
    title: "אלכסנדר ת'רו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4720208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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