# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-irving
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:25:48.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-irving"
name: "John Irving"
slug: "john-irving"
description: "John Winslow Irving is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter."
tagline: "American novelist and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Irving_Hengelo_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-03-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.503508
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JohnIrvingAuthor"
    handle:    "JohnIrvingAuthor"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410288/"
    handle:    "nm0410288"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://john-irving.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "John Irving"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "जॉन इरविंग"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Irving"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջոն Իրվինգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Irving"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump