# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-gerrold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:48:08.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-gerrold"
name: "David Gerrold"
slug: "david-gerrold"
description: "David Gerrold is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode \"The Trouble with Tribbles\", created the Sleestak race on the TV series Land of the Lost, and wrote the novelette The Martian Child, which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Cusack."
tagline: "American science fiction screenwriter and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Gerrold_2016_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump