# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-a-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:46:35.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-a-williams"
name: "John A. Williams"
slug: "john-a-williams"
description: "John Alfred Williams was an American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967. Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection Safari West."
tagline: "American writer (1925–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_A._Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1925-12-05"
deathDate: "2015-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.04
  momentum:             7.281553398058254
  historical:           4.619188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "جون وليامز (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Williams"
    title: "John A. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alfred_Williams"
    title: "John Alfred Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Williams"
    title: "John A. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Williams"
    title: "John A. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q661925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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