# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brett-halliday
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:05:23.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brett-halliday"
name: "Brett Halliday"
slug: "brett-halliday"
description: "Brett Halliday is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wrote, and later commissioned others to continue. Dresser also wrote westerns, non-series mysteries, and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne."
tagline: "American novelist (1904-1977)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lubWjxbJHlLRYp3QsllVHdFjmnr.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-07-31"
deathDate: "1977-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.442228
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0356539"
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    title: "ብሬት ሆሊደይ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brett Halliday"
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    title: "Brett Halliday"
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    title: "Brett Halliday"
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    title: "Brett Halliday"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump