# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-willeford
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:21:57.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-willeford"
name: "Charles Willeford"
slug: "charles-willeford"
description: "Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy."
tagline: "American crime novelist (1919-1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Willeford80s.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-01-02"
deathDate: "1988-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.05454
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929696/"
    handle:    "nm0929696"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump