# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-buford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:49:59.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-buford"
name: "Bill Buford"
slug: "bill-buford"
description: "William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term \"dirty realism.\""
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Buford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.868436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بيل بافورد"
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    title: "Bill Buford"
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    title: "Bill Buford"
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    title: "بل بفورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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