# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-straub
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:48:57.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-straub"
name: "Peter Straub"
slug: "peter-straub"
description: "Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award."
tagline: "American novelist and poet (1943–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Straub.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-02"
deathDate: "2022-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.052721301354005
  historical:           22.74801733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "peterstraubnyc"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833718/"
    handle:    "nm0833718"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.peterstraub.net/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пітер Страуб"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump