# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-g-finney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:13.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-g-finney"
name: "Charles G. Finney"
slug: "charles-g-finney"
description: "Charles Grandison Finney was an American news editor and fantasy novelist, the great-grandson of evangelist Charles Grandison Finney. His first novel and most famous work, The Circus of Dr. Lao, won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1935."
tagline: "American fantasy writer (1905-1984)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1905-12-01"
deathDate: "1984-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.77
  momentum:             0.7899807321772641
  historical:           12.28682666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278269/"
    handle:    "nm0278269"
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    title: "Charles G. Finney"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump