# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kahn
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:05.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kahn"
name: "James Kahn"
slug: "james-kahn"
description: "James Kahn is an American medical specialist and writer, best known for his novelization of Return of the Jedi. Born in Chicago, Kahn received a degree in medical studies from the University of Chicago. His post-graduate training, specializing in Emergency Medicine, was completed at USC–LA County Hospital and UCLA. His original work includes three novels in the New World series: World Enough, and Time (1980), Time's Dark Laughter (1982), and Timefall (1987). As well as Return of the Jedi, he wrote the novelizations of the films Poltergeist and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He has also written for well-known television series such as Melrose Place and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was the producer of Melrose Place from 1996 to 1998."
tagline: "American author"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iVRz1eNkMyF3KPr5mBsQJPMBuLj.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.64
  momentum:             32.18649517684888
  historical:           8.360621333333333
  currentAttention:     9.040000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/thatjameskahn"
    handle:    "thatjameskahn"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434851/"
    handle:    "nm0434851"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "جيمس كان (روائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس كان (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джеймс Кан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kahn"
    title: "James Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kahn"
    title: "James Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kahn"
    title: "James Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kahn"
    title: "James Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kahn"
    title: "James Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374540"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212062"
    title: "James Kahn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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