# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lajos-egri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:57:15.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lajos-egri"
name: "Lajos Egri"
slug: "lajos-egri"
description: "Lajos N. Egri was a Hungarian-American playwright and teacher of creative writing. He is the author of The Art of Dramatic Writing, which is widely regarded as one of the best works on the subject of playwriting, as well as its companion textbook, The Art of Creative Writing. Beyond the theater, his methods have also been used to write short stories, novels, and screenplays."
tagline: "American writer (1888-1967)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/Lajos_Egri.jpg/330px-Lajos_Egri.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-06-04"
deathDate: "1967-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.59
  momentum:             0.957004160887656
  historical:           7.695106666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "لاجوس إيجري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Egri"
    title: "Lajos Egri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lajos Egri"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Egri"
    title: "Lajos Egri"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egri_Lajos_(dr%C3%A1ma%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Egri Lajos (drámaíró)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Egri"
    title: "Lajos Egri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Egri"
    title: "Lajos Egri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Egri"
    title: "Lajos Egri"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q710510"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump