# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-finney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:27:40.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-finney"
name: "Jack Finney"
slug: "jack-finney"
description: "Walter Braden \"Jack\" Finney was an American writer. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. Themes that persisted throughout his career were a fascination with previous time periods and time travel, and ordinary people encountering extraordinary circumstances. Many of his works were adapted into films or television productions."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer (1911–1995)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/f1wr5V2soZAientHmhrocWTOW2P.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-10-02"
deathDate: "1995-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.63428266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278277/"
    handle:    "nm0278277"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney"
    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney"
    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جک فینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney"
    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Финней, Джек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Jack Finney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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