# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-edward-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:00:33.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-edward-williams"
name: "John Edward Williams"
slug: "john-edward-williams"
description: "John Edward Williams was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. National Book Award."
tagline: "American writer (1922–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Edward_Williams.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-08-29"
deathDate: "1994-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.5
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump