# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-shirley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:15.749Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-shirley"
name: "John Shirley"
slug: "john-shirley"
description: "John Shirley is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, noir fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays—including The Crow—and has published over 84 books including 10 short story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side. His newest novels are Stormland, Suborbital 7, Axle Bust Creek, the Spur Award winning novel Gunmetal Mountain,Blood in Sweet River and The Silver Revolver. He has published non-fiction pieces in Wired Magazine, The Utne Reader, Boing Boing, and other publications."
tagline: "American writer, screenwriter and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnShirleyNACollins89.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.871892
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794326/"
    handle:    "nm0794326"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://john-shirley.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون شيرلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "جان شرلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Джон Ширлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Shirley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1217663"
    title: "John Shirley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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