# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allan-w-eckert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:55:25.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allan-w-eckert"
name: "Allan W. Eckert"
slug: "allan-w-eckert"
description: "Allan Wesley Eckert was an American novelist and playwright who specialized in historical novels for adults and children, and was also a naturalist. His novel Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971) was initially marketed to adults and selected by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. A runner-up for the Newbery Medal, it was afterward marketed as a children's novel and adapted by Disney for a television movie known as The Boy Who Talked to Badgers (1975)."
tagline: "American writer (1931–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-01-30"
deathDate: "2011-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.44
  momentum:             3.119345997243303
  historical:           6.572249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1591717/"
    handle:    "nm1591717"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/59419.Allan_W_Eckert"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_W._Eckert"
    title: "Allan W. Eckert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A5%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "آلان دبليو. إكرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "آلان دبليو. اكرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_W._Eckert"
    title: "Allan W. Eckert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_W._Eckert"
    title: "Allan W. Eckert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_W._Eckert"
    title: "Allan W. Eckert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_W._Eckert"
    title: "Allan W. Eckert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524567"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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