# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-vachss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:57.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-vachss"
name: "Andrew Vachss"
slug: "andrew-vachss"
description: "Andrew Henry Vachss was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths."
tagline: "American writer and lawyer (1942–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Vachss_cropped.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-10-19"
deathDate: "2021-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             0.7153214113098115
  historical:           16.479812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.vachss.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Andrew Vachss"
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    title: "Andrew Vachss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Andrew Vachss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Vachss"
    title: "Andrew Vachss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Vachss"
    title: "Andrew Vachss"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Andrew Vachss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ваксс, Эндрю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Andrew Vachss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Andrew Vachss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Vachss"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump