# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-parini
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:26:38.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-parini"
name: "Jay Parini"
slug: "jay-parini"
description: "Jay Parini is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, Herman Melville, and a novelized memoir about his road trip with Jorge Luis Borges."
tagline: "Professor, author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JayPariniinoffice.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.03
  momentum:             7.851734075325449
  historical:           6.159325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661514/"
    handle:    "nm0661514"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jayparini.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jay_Parini"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جی پاریینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Parini"
    title: "Jay Parini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Parini"
    title: "Jay Parini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جی پارینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Parini"
    title: "Jay Parini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1329542"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2028114"
    title: "Jay Parini"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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