# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-lacy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:47:31.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-lacy"
name: "Ed Lacy"
slug: "ed-lacy"
description: "Ed Lacy, born Leonard S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Lacy, who was Jewish American, is credited with creating \"the first credible African American PI\" character in fiction, Toussaint \"Touie\" Marcus Moore. Room to Swing, his 1957 novel that introduced Touie Moore, received the 1958 Edgar Award for Best Novel."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer (1911–1968)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-08-25"
deathDate: "1968-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             0.8571428571428571
  historical:           7.872390666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709315/"
    handle:    "nm1709315"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%96"
    title: "Ед Лейсі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A4%E1%8B%B5_%E1%88%8C%E1%88%B2"
    title: "ኤድ ሌሲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A"
    title: "إد ليسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "اد ليسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lacy"
    title: "Ed Lacy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lacy"
    title: "Ed Lacy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lacy"
    title: "Ed Lacy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lacy"
    title: "Ed Lacy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3869993"
    title: "Ed Lacy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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