# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-wray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:24:33.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-wray"
name: "John Wray"
slug: "john-wray"
description: "John Henderson, better known by his pen name John Wray, is an American novelist and regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Born in Washington, D.C., of an American father and Austrian mother, he is a citizen of both countries. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, attended the Nichols School for his high school education, and then graduated from Oberlin College, majoring in Biology. He dropped out of graduate school twice: first from New York University's M.F.A. program in poetry, where he won an Academy of American Poets Prize, and then, a few years later, from Columbia University's fiction program. He currently lives in New York City."
tagline: "American novelist and essayist (1971-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Wray_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.03
  momentum:             15.84313725490196
  historical:           5.475558666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wray_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "John Wray (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "جون راي (روائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "جون راى (روائى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wray"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wray_(novelist)"
    title: "John Wray (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wray_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "John Wray (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6264940"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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