# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-eisler
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:59:36.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-eisler"
name: "Barry Eisler"
slug: "barry-eisler"
description: "Barry Mark Eisler is an American novelist. He is the author of three thriller series, the first featuring anti-hero John Rain, a half-Japanese, half-American former soldier turned freelance assassin, a second featuring black ops soldier Ben Treven, and his most recent centered on Seattle detective Livia Lone. Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog Heart of the Matter, and at the blogs CHUD, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com, The Smirking Chimp, and Truthout."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eisler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.77
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           11.644928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2960666/"
    handle:    "nm2960666"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.barryeisler.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بارى ايسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бари Айслър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Eisler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Eisler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eisler"
    title: "Barry Eisler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eisler"
    title: "Barry Eisler"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eisler"
    title: "Barry Eisler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Eisler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Eisler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Eisler"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump