# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-mccoy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:19.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-mccoy"
name: "Horace McCoy"
slug: "horace-mccoy"
description: "Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death."
tagline: "American writer (1897–1955)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1897-04-14"
deathDate: "1955-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.86156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0566752"
sources:
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    title: "Horace McCoy"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump