# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-crumley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:49:56.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-crumley"
name: "James Crumley"
slug: "james-crumley"
description: "James Arthur Crumley was an American author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as \"one of modern crime writing's best practitioners\", who was \"a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel\" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as \"the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years.\""
tagline: "American writer (1939–2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/James_Crumley_photo.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-10-12"
deathDate: "2008-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0.8361851744819789
  historical:           10.59255333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1891211/"
    handle:    "nm1891211"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جیمز کرولی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1874760"
    title: "James Crumley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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