# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-frey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:27:33.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-frey"
name: "James Frey"
slug: "james-frey"
description: "James Christopher Frey is an American writer and businessman. His first two books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), were bestsellers marketed as memoirs. Large parts of the books were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated, sparking a media controversy. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was similarly a bestseller."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Frey_(10818).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.395697537570159
  historical:           19.302832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0294580"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump