# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-berendt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:37.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-berendt"
name: "John Berendt"
slug: "john-berendt"
description: "John Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and The City of Falling Angels, which tells the story of interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom Berendt met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in 1996."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.109188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073509/"
    handle:    "nm0073509"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4fc8e6aa-b1fd-49d2-817d-086bc31cb5fb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%AA"
    title: "جون بيريندت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Berendt"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3030493"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54039"
    title: "John Berendt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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