# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-r-lansdale
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:39:42.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-r-lansdale"
name: "Joe R. Lansdale"
slug: "joe-r-lansdale"
description: "Joe Richard Lansdale is an American writer and martial arts instructor. A prose writer in a variety of genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense, he has also written comic books and screenplays. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and eleven Bram Stoker Awards."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, martial arts instructor (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_lansdale_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.78
  momentum:             0.231673010094324
  historical:           16.022588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/joelansdale"
    handle:    "joelansdale"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487067/"
    handle:    "nm0487067"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://joerlansdale.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump