# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-higgins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:39:38.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-higgins"
name: "Jack Higgins"
slug: "jack-higgins"
description: "Henry Patterson, commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title."
tagline: "British novelist (1929–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/89/Jack_Higgins_photo.webp/330px-Jack_Higgins_photo.webp.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-07-27"
deathDate: "2022-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.32
  momentum:             3.595424005810786
  historical:           23.469532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump