# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darryl-ponicsan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:38:55.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darryl-ponicsan"
name: "Darryl Ponicsan"
slug: "darryl-ponicsan"
description: "Darryl Ponicsan is an American writer. He is best known as the author of the 1970 novel The Last Detail, which was adapted into the 1973 film of the same name starring Jack Nicholson. A sequel, Last Flag Flying, based on his 2005 novel of the same name, was released in 2017; he co-wrote the screenplay with director Richard Linklater. He also wrote the 1973 novel and screenplay Cinderella Liberty, starring James Caan. Ponicsan writes mystery novels under the pen name Anne Argula."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Darryl_Ponicsan_03A.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.34
  momentum:             0.9375
  historical:           5.968541333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690431/"
    handle:    "nm0690431"
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Ponicsan"
    title: "Darryl Ponicsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Ponicsan"
    title: "Darryl Ponicsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Ponicsan"
    title: "Darryl Ponicsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Ponicsan"
    title: "Darryl Ponicsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Ponicsan"
    title: "Darryl Ponicsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ダリル・ポニクサン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5225430"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66113"
    title: "Darryl Ponicsan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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