# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-monette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:01:11.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-monette"
name: "Paul Monette"
slug: "paul-monette"
description: "Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best known for his books about gay relationships. In 1992, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction."
tagline: "American writer (1945–1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/West_of_Yesterday%2C_East_of_Summer_%28Paul_Monette_book_-_cover_art%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-10-16"
deathDate: "1995-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.571565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597922/"
    handle:    "nm0597922"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/896a2211-cf0b-4a9c-b223-a114cee677da"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "پول مونيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Monette"
    title: "Paul Monette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Monette"
    title: "Paul Monette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Monette_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Paul Monette (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Monette"
    title: "Paul Monette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulus_Monette"
    title: "Paulus Monette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Monette"
    title: "Paul Monette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%9D%E7%BD%97%C2%B7%E8%8E%AB%E5%A5%88"
    title: "保罗·莫奈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1230996"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/160421"
    title: "Paul Monette"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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