# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-means
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:16:06.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-means"
name: "David Means"
slug: "david-means"
description: "David Means is an American short story writer and novelist based in Nyack, New York. His stories have appeared in many publications, including Esquire, The New Yorker, and Harper's. They are frequently set in the Midwest or the Rust Belt, or along the Hudson River in New York."
tagline: "American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidMeans3.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             4.665032178976402
  historical:           5.876998666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Means"
    title: "David Means"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Means"
    title: "David Means"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Means"
    title: "David Means"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Means"
    title: "David Means"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Means"
    title: "David Means"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Means"
    title: "David Means"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5237471"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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