# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-davis-q1933136
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:15.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-davis-q1933136"
name: "Mike Davis"
slug: "mike-davis-q1933136"
description: "Michael Ryan Davis was an American Marxist historian, public intellectual, urban theorist, and writer based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts, which connected political economy to social crises. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism."
tagline: "American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Davis_with_Levi_Kingston.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
deathDate: "2022-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.07481296758104738
  historical:           13.50786133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0205189"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump