# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-o-connor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:40:21.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-o-connor"
name: "Edwin O'Connor"
slug: "edwin-o-connor"
description: "Edwin Greene O'Connor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests."
tagline: "American journalist and fiction writer (1918–1968)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-07-29"
deathDate: "1968-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.3
  momentum:             17.76457883369331
  historical:           14.48794266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0640312"
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    title: "Էդվին Օ'Քոննոր"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump