# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murray-leinster
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:40:13.310Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/murray-leinster"
name: "Murray Leinster"
slug: "murray-leinster"
description: "Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles."
tagline: "Novelist, short story writer (1896–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%22Space_Platform%22%2C_by_Murray_Leinster_(portrait_photograph).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1896-06-16"
deathDate: "1975-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump