# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-storm
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:12.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-storm"
name: "Howard Storm"
slug: "howard-storm"
description: "Howard Storm is an American Christian minister, writer, and painter. He is a former professor and chairman of the art department at Northern Kentucky University. In 2000, he authored My Descent Into Death, which chronicles his near-death experience. Storm's near-death experience has been cited in literature on near-death studies, and his book has garnered endorsement by gothic fiction writer Anne Rice before it was acquired by Doubleday and republished in 2005. Storm has retold his story on NBC's Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, 48 Hours, Discovery Channel and Coast to Coast AM."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Storm_(2016).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             4.156802200368459
  historical:           5.578842666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Storm"
    title: "Howard Storm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "هوارد ستورم (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Storm_(author)"
    title: "Howard Storm (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9C%8D%E8%8F%AF%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E6%96%AF%E6%89%98%E5%A7%86"
    title: "霍華德·斯托姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ハワード・ストーム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Storm_(author)"
    title: "Howard Storm (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354865"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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