# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kem-nunn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:41:09.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kem-nunn"
name: "Kem Nunn"
slug: "kem-nunn"
description: "Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian novelist, surfer, and magazine and television writer who lives in southern California. He has been described as \"the inventor of surf-noir\" for his novels' dark themes, political overtones, and surf settings. He is the author of six novels, including his 1984 seminal debut surf novel Tapping the Source, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Tapping The Source inspired the 1991 movie Point Break, and its 2015 remake. Nunn's novel, Tijuana Straights, received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kem_Nunn_at_%C3%89tonnants_Voyageurs.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.360369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2349355/"
    handle:    "nm2349355"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Нанн, Кем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كيم نان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Nunn"
    title: "Kem Nunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Nunn"
    title: "Kem Nunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Nunn"
    title: "Kem Nunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Nunn"
    title: "Kem Nunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1738429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222096"
    title: "Kem Nunn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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