# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-pelzer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:38.779Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-pelzer"
name: "Dave Pelzer"
slug: "dave-pelzer"
description: "David James Pelzer is an American author of several autobiographical and self-help books. His 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called \"It\": One Child's Courage to Survive, was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for several years, and in 5 years had sold at least 1.6 million copies. The book brought Pelzer fame, and has also been a source of controversy: family members and journalists have accused Pelzer of fabricating several events in the book."
tagline: "American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Pelzer_USAF.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.43
  momentum:             10.69223573433115
  historical:           6.946161333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davepelzer.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/133cd3f2-fb64-46c1-9632-aaaafd8ecf9c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer"
    title: "Dave Pelzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer"
    title: "Dave Pelzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer"
    title: "Dave Pelzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer"
    title: "Dave Pelzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デイヴ・ペルザー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer"
    title: "Dave Pelzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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