# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-pelecanos
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:41:18.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-pelecanos"
name: "George Pelecanos"
slug: "george-pelecanos"
description: "George P. Pelecanos is an American author, producer, and television writer. Many of his 20 books are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. On television, he frequently collaborates with David Simon, writing multiple episodes of Simon's HBO series The Wire and Treme, and is also the co-creator of the HBO series The Deuce and We Own This City."
tagline: "American author (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Pelecanos_at_the_2008_Brooklyn_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             2.335880249021105
  historical:           14.365672
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670782/"
    handle:    "nm0670782"
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    url:       "http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/georgepelecanos/"
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    title: "George Pelecanos"
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    title: "ジョージ・P・ペレケーノス"
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    title: "George Pelecanos"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump