# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-schickler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:47:36.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-schickler"
name: "David Schickler"
slug: "david-schickler"
description: "David Schickler is an American screenwriter and author, most recently of the memoir The Dark Path, published by Riverhead Books in September 2013. He is the co-creator and an executive producer of the Cinemax television series Banshee, which premiered in 2013. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling short story collection Kissing in Manhattan (2001) and the nationally bestselling novel Sweet and Vicious (2004). He has written original and adapted scripts for Universal, Lions Gate, Sidney Kimmel and Wildwood Films."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Schickler_Headshot_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.2
  momentum:             1.153519932145886
  historical:           5.514006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davidschickler"
    handle:    "davidschickler"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1416926/"
    handle:    "nm1416926"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schickler"
    title: "David Schickler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schickler_(Autor)"
    title: "David Schickler (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schickler"
    title: "David Schickler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Девід Шиклер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Schickler"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1255314"
    title: "David Schickler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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