# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-j-priest
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:31:42.717Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-j-priest"
name: "Christopher J. Priest"
slug: "christopher-j-priest"
description: "Christopher James Priest is an American comic book writer who is at times credited simply as Priest. He changed his name legally circa 1993. He was the first black writer-editor in mainstream comics."
tagline: "American comic book writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christopher_J._Priest.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.736110666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fe5886b3-6073-413b-b19b-3c394745ef6a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "كريستوفر جيه. پريست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(Comicautor)"
    title: "Christopher Priest (Comicautor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(comic_book_writer)"
    title: "Christopher Priest (comic book writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(historietista)"
    title: "Christopher Priest (historietista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(auteur_de_comics)"
    title: "Christopher Priest (auteur de comics)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(ihe_nkiri)"
    title: "Christopher Priest (ihe nkiri)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest"
    title: "Christopher Priest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(comic_book_writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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