# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linwood-barclay
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:30:44.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linwood-barclay"
name: "Linwood Barclay"
slug: "linwood-barclay"
description: "Linwood Barclay is an American-born Canadian author, noted as a novelist, humorist, and (former) columnist. His popular detective novels are bestsellers in Canada and internationally, beginning with No Time for Goodbye in 2007."
tagline: "American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linwood_Barclay_-_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_-_2013_(DanH-1952)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1910360029390154
  historical:           10.83319733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5295572/"
    handle:    "nm5295572"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.linwoodbarclay.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "لينود باركلاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Линуд Баркли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Linwood Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linwood_Barclay"
    title: "Linwood Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linwood_Barclay"
    title: "Linwood Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "לינווד ברקלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Linwood Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リンウッド・バークレイ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Баркли, Линвуд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump