# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-purdy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:51:17.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-purdy"
name: "James Purdy"
slug: "james-purdy"
description: "James Otis Purdy was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy."
tagline: "Writer (1914–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Van_Vechten%2C_Carl_-_Portrait_of_writer_James_Purdy_(1957).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-07-17"
deathDate: "2009-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             16.6390243902439
  historical:           13.842948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2182996/"
    handle:    "nm2182996"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
    title: "James Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy"
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    title: "Парди, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "James Purdy"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump