# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:24.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-wright"
name: "Lawrence Wright"
slug: "lawrence-wright"
description: "Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law."
tagline: "American author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lawrence_Wright_2025_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-08-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.36
  momentum:             1.394302848575712
  historical:           16.7098
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0942590"
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    url:       "http://www.lawrencewright.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump