# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-perdue
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:03:17.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-perdue"
name: "Lewis Perdue"
slug: "lewis-perdue"
description: "Lewis Perdue is the author of 20 published books including Daughter of God, and The Da Vinci Legacy. Perdue was sued by Random House in 2003 when he charged that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code plagiarized those two books. Random House won the lawsuit but lost their demand to have Perdue pay their legal fees."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/LewisPerdue.jpg/330px-LewisPerdue.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.54
  momentum:             3.260972156677679
  historical:           5.272642666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2308649/"
    handle:    "nm2308649"
sources:
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%8E"
    title: "Люис Пардю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "لويس بيردو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "لويس بيردو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Perdue"
    title: "Lewis Perdue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Perdue"
    title: "Lewis Perdue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Perdue"
    title: "Lewis Perdue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1822141"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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