# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lester-del-rey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:21:34.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lester-del-rey"
name: "Lester del Rey"
slug: "lester-del-rey"
description: "Leonard Knapp, best known by his primary pseudonym, Lester del Rey, was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the fantasy editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, working for his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey."
tagline: "American science fiction author (1915–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lester_Del_Rey_(1974).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-06-02"
deathDate: "1993-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump