# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-niles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:49:54.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-niles"
name: "Douglas Niles"
slug: "douglas-niles"
description: "Douglas Niles is a fantasy author and game designer. Niles was one of the creators of the Dragonlance world and the author of the first three Forgotten Realms novels, the Star Frontiers space opera setting and the Top Secret S/I espionage role-playing game."
tagline: "American writer and game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_Niles_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2018_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.890462666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.douglasniles.com/"
sources:
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    title: "ڈگلس نائلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "دوغلاس نايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوجلاس نايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Niles"
    title: "Douglas Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Niles"
    title: "Douglas Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Niles"
    title: "Douglas Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Niles"
    title: "Douglas Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Niles"
    title: "Douglas Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B7%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Найлз, Дуглас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3038032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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