# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-v-higgins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:41.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-v-higgins"
name: "George V. Higgins"
slug: "george-v-higgins"
description: "George V. Higgins was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor. He authored more than thirty books, including Bomber's Law, Trust, and Kennedy for the Defense, and is best known for his bestselling crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which established the Boston noir genre of gangster tales that spawned several popular films by followers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
tagline: "American novelist, lawyer, journalist, professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_V._Higgins_(1975).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-11-13"
deathDate: "1999-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.469768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383389/"
    handle:    "nm0383389"
sources:
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    title: "جورج في. هيغينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джордж Хигинс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George V. Higgins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump