# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:38:31.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-hopkins"
name: "Jerry Hopkins"
slug: "jerry-hopkins"
description: "Elisha Gerald Hopkins was an American journalist and author best known for writing the first biographies of Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison of the Doors, as well as serving for 20 years as a correspondent and contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine. He also penned several other biographies, wrote history and humor, and was a writer-producer for Mike Wallace, Steve Allen and Mort Sahl."
tagline: "American journalist and author (1935–2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1935-11-09"
deathDate: "2018-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.81
  momentum:             8.0755228177123
  historical:           7.481282666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jerryhopkins.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيرى هوبكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B9_%CE%A7%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%82"
    title: "Τζέρι Χόπκινς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins_(author)"
    title: "Jerry Hopkins (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins"
    title: "Jerry Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins"
    title: "Jerry Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins"
    title: "Jerry Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins"
    title: "Jerry Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hopkins"
    title: "Jerry Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3473906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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