# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-begley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:56:17.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-begley"
name: "Louis Begley"
slug: "louis-begley"
description: "Louis Begley is a Polish-American novelist. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel Wartime Lies (1991) and the Schmidt trilogy: About Schmidt (1996), Schmidt Delivered (2000) and Schmidt Steps Back (2012)."
tagline: "Polish–American novelist (born 1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Begley_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             15.2755905511811
  historical:           13.18031333333333
  currentAttention:     0.28
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 188
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1095201/"
    handle:    "nm1095201"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.louisbegley.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لويس بيجلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley"
    title: "Louis Begley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ლუის ბეგლი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Луис Бегли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Louis Begley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump