# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julius-fast
# Generated: 2026-08-20T17:16:41.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/julius-fast"
name: "Julius Fast"
slug: "julius-fast"
description: "Julius Fast was an American author of both fiction and non-fiction. In 1946 he was the first recipient of the Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America for the best first novel of 1945."
tagline: "American writer (1919–2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Julius_Fast_1975.jpg/330px-Julius_Fast_1975.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-04-17"
deathDate: "2008-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31.57
  momentum:             2.222222222222222
  historical:           3.067854666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "يوليوس فاست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Fast"
    title: "Julius Fast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Fast"
    title: "Julius Fast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1813909"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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