# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-spinelli
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:24.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-spinelli"
name: "Jerry Spinelli"
slug: "jerry-spinelli"
description: "Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer."
tagline: "American children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Spinelli_(signing_a_book).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.64007333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jerryspinelliauthor.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "چيرى سپينيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Spinelli"
    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Spinelli"
    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Spinelli"
    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Spinelli"
    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Spinelli"
    title: "Jerry Spinelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джеррі Спінеллі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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