# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:31:08.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-davis"
name: "Francis Davis"
slug: "francis-davis"
description: "Francis John Davis was an American author and journalist known for having been the jazz critic for The Village Voice and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He also taught courses on jazz and blues at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a 1994 recipient of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts."
tagline: "American journalist and writer (1946–2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Cropped_Photo_of_Francis_Davis.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-08-30"
deathDate: "2025-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.46
  momentum:             0.7087912087912088
  historical:           6.203497333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7159069/"
    handle:    "nm7159069"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/81918aff-beb7-4b78-b6e9-bf3cd20b0a5c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فرنسيس ديفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فرنسيس ديفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Davis_(Journalist)"
    title: "Francis Davis (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Davis"
    title: "Francis Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانسیس دیویس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Davis_(gasediman)"
    title: "Francis Davis (gasediman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1441460"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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