# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-anthony-west
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:04:43.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-anthony-west"
name: "John Anthony West"
slug: "john-anthony-west"
description: "John Anthony West was an American author and lecturer and a proponent of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis. His early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and science-fiction writer. He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962. After recovering from cancer, West died from pneumonia at the age of 85."
tagline: "American egyptologist (1932-2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-09-07"
deathDate: "2018-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.57
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           5.504826666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jawest.com/"
sources:
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    title: "جون انتونى ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Anthony West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جون أنتوني ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_West"
    title: "John Anthony West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_West"
    title: "John Anthony West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_West"
    title: "John Anthony West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6219218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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