# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/drew-karpyshyn
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:27.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/drew-karpyshyn"
name: "Drew Karpyshyn"
slug: "drew-karpyshyn"
description: "Drew Karpyshyn is a Canadian video game scenario writer, scriptwriter and novelist. He served as a senior writer on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for BioWare and lead writer for the first two Mass Effect video games. He left BioWare in 2012 to focus on his Chaos Born novels, and returned to it three years later in 2015. On March 9, 2018, he announced he was leaving BioWare once again to pursue his independent work."
tagline: "Author and game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drew_Karpyshyn_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2014.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.182905982905983
  historical:           12.235512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1891010"
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    url:       "http://www.drewkarpyshyn.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump