# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-mcinerney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:35.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-mcinerney"
name: "Jay McInerney"
slug: "jay-mcinerney"
description: "John Barrett \"Jay\" McInerney Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled See You on the Other Side, published in 2026. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories that spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jay_McInerney_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.706108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://jaymcinerney.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump