# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-steinbeck-iv
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:30:29.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-steinbeck-iv"
name: "John Steinbeck IV"
slug: "john-steinbeck-iv"
description: "John Ernst Steinbeck IV was an American journalist and author. He was the second child of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Ernst Steinbeck and his second wife, singer-composer Gwyndolyn \"Gwyn\" Conger. In 1965, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in Vietnam. He worked as a journalist for Armed Forces Radio and TV, and as a war correspondent for the United States Department of Defense."
tagline: "American journalist and author (1946–1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnSteinbeck.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-06-12"
deathDate: "1991-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.171365333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جان استاین‌بک چهارم"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations