# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rechy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:35:16.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rechy"
name: "John Rechy"
slug: "john-rechy"
description: "John Francisco Rechy is a Mexican-American novelist and essayist. His novels are written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matter. City of Night, his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Mexican-American literature, notably with his novel The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, which has been taught in several Chicano studies courses throughout the United States. But, even after the success of his first novel, he still worked as a prostitute, teaching during the day, and hustling at night. He worked as a prostitute into his forties while also teaching at UCLA. Through the 1970s and 1980s he dealt with personal drug use, as well as the AIDS crisis, which killed many of his friends."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yFCcQk0JFgWNvGVb8CVqpzOwp6g.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.49
  momentum:             2.091836734693878
  historical:           12.99305733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714475/"
    handle:    "nm0714475"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnrechy.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جون ريتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джон Речи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جان ریچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rechy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1648830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246288"
    title: "John Rechy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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