# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-buten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:50:57.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-buten"
name: "Howard Buten"
slug: "howard-buten"
description: "Howard Buten was an American author living in France. He was also a psychologist, a clown, and a violin player. Buten was the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Killed Myself, was published in 1981 and turned into a film under its French title Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué in 1994."
tagline: "American psychologist and clown (1950-2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Buten.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-07-28"
deathDate: "2025-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.31
  momentum:             3.466666666666668
  historical:           7.032868
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124731/"
    handle:    "nm0124731"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buten"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2927654"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/235652"
    title: "Howard Buten"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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