# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-wambaugh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:43.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-wambaugh"
name: "Joseph Wambaugh"
slug: "joseph-wambaugh"
description: "Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America."
tagline: "American writer (1937–2025)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-01-22"
deathDate: "2025-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://josephwambaugh.net/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump