# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clifford-irving
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:16.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clifford-irving"
name: "Clifford Irving"
slug: "clifford-irving"
description: "Clifford Michael Irving was an American novelist and investigative reporter. Although he published 20 novels, he is best known for an \"autobiography\" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. The fictional work was to have been published in 1972. After Hughes denounced him and sued the publisher, McGraw-Hill, Irving and his collaborators confessed to the hoax. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for fraud, of which he served 17 months."
tagline: "American author and convicted fraudster (1930-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Clifford_Irving_1977.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-11-05"
deathDate: "2017-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.38
  momentum:             5.054545454545456
  historical:           12.83572266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410247/"
    handle:    "nm0410247"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://cliffordirving.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كليفورد ارفينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving"
    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving"
    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving"
    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Clifford Irving (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Քլիֆորդ Իրվինգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving"
    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ирвинг, Клиффорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clifford Irving"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Clifford Irving"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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