# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-lake
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:07:12.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-lake"
name: "Jay Lake"
slug: "jay-lake"
description: "Joseph Edward \"Jay\" Lake Jr. was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lived in Portland, Oregon, and worked as a product manager for a voice services company."
tagline: "Science fiction writer (1964–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jay_Lake.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-06-06"
deathDate: "2014-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.65
  momentum:             0.6884057971014493
  historical:           10.27728666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 221
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5447966/"
    handle:    "nm5447966"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jlake.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جاي ليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جاى ليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Лейк, Джей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake"
    title: "Jay Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720669"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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