# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/poppy-z-brite
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:56:18.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/poppy-z-brite"
name: "Poppy Z. Brite"
slug: "poppy-z-brite"
description: "William Joseph Martin, formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved fame in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. He is best known for his novels Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and Exquisite Corpse (1996). His later work moved into the genre of dark comedy, with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Martin's novels are typically standalone books but may feature recurring characters from previous novels and short stories. Much of his work features openly bisexual and gay characters."
tagline: "Novelist, short story writer, food writer from the United States"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Recent_photo_of_Billy_Martin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans man"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.21
  momentum:             1.819990054699155
  historical:           10.32338266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/docbrite"
    handle:    "docbrite"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/poppy.z.brite.writer"
    handle:    "poppy.z.brite.writer"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109976/"
    handle:    "nm0109976"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.poppyzbrite.com"
sources:
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    title: "پوست زیڈ برائٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پوپى زى. بريتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B8_%D0%97%D1%8D%D0%B4"
    title: "Брайт, Поппи Зэд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Поппі З. Брайт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222578"
    title: "Poppy Z. Brite"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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