# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-gifford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:22:13.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-gifford"
name: "Barry Gifford"
slug: "barry-gifford"
description: "Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers."
tagline: "American novelist, poet, screenwriter, biographer, editor (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Gifford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             2.234848484848484
  historical:           12.58877866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317510/"
    handle:    "nm0317510"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "باري غيفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بری قیفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gifford"
    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gifford"
    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بری گیفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gifford"
    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gifford"
    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Gifford"
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    title: "Гиффорд, Барри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Barry Gifford"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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