# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hilton-als
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:04:40.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hilton-als"
name: "Hilton Als"
slug: "hilton-als"
description: "Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic. He is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, for which he won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He received a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in 2016, and his books include The Women (1996) and White Girls (2013). Als is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. He is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe."
tagline: "American writer and theater critic (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hilton_Als_(born_1960)_in_the_video_'Hilton_Als_at_the_San_Francisco_Public_Library'.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.474966170500677
  historical:           6.861056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022487/"
    handle:    "nm0022487"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump