# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-b-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:10.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-b-hughes"
name: "Dorothy B. Hughes"
slug: "dorothy-b-hughes"
description: "Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946)."
tagline: "American writer (1904-1993)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1904-08-10"
deathDate: "1993-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           11.654432
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump