# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-ambler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:14:18.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-ambler"
name: "Eric Ambler"
slug: "eric-ambler"
description: "Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Ambler is notable for his novel The Light of Day (1962), which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1964 and which was adapted into film as Topkapi (1964)."
tagline: "English writer (1909–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Eric_Ambler.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-06-28"
deathDate: "1998-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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