# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-grady
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:39:34.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-grady"
name: "James Grady"
slug: "james-grady"
description: "James Grady is an American writer and investigative journalist known for his thriller novels on espionage, intrigue, and police procedurals, as well as his screenwriting work for TV shows with Stephen J. Cannell and film work with Brandon Lee, William Katt and David Hasselhoff. Grady has edited fiction anthologies, and published numerous short stories and poems. In 2008, London's Daily Telegraph named Grady as one of \"50 crime writers to read before you die\". In 2015, The Washington Post compared his prose to George Orwell and Bob Dylan."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_grady_7251.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50
  momentum:             2.859848484848485
  historical:           12.33999866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333600/"
    handle:    "nm0333600"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jamesgrady.net/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز قرادی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джеймс Грейди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Grady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady_(Autor)"
    title: "James Grady (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady_(author)"
    title: "James Grady (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "جیمز گرادی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady_(auteur)"
    title: "James Grady (auteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady"
    title: "James Grady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady"
    title: "James Grady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady"
    title: "James Grady"
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    title: "Грейди, Джеймс (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71113"
    title: "James Grady"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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