# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-abbott
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:25:57.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-abbott"
name: "Jeff Abbott"
slug: "jeff-abbott"
description: "Jeff Abbott is an American author of mysteries and thrillers. He has degrees in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. Before writing full-time, he was a creative director at an advertising agency. His early novels were traditional detective fiction, but in recent years he has turned to writing thriller fiction. A theme of his work is the idea of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary danger and fighting to return to their normal lives. His novels are published in several countries and have also been bestsellers in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France and Portugal. He is also Creative Director at Springbox, a Prophet company."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeff_Abbott_2022_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.220556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/JeffAbbott"
    handle:    "JeffAbbott"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4867926/"
    handle:    "nm4867926"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://jeffabbott.com"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جيف ابوت (روائى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Abbott"
    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Abbott"
    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جف ابوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Abbott"
    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4465301"
    title: "Jeff Abbott"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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