# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-cline
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:01:28.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-cline"
name: "Ernest Cline"
slug: "ernest-cline"
description: "Ernest Christy Cline is an American science fiction novelist, slam poet and screenwriter. He wrote the novels Ready Player One, Armada, and Ready Player Two, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg."
tagline: "American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NBF2024-ernest-cline.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump