# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-a-lafferty
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:39.502Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/r-a-lafferty"
name: "R. A. Lafferty"
slug: "r-a-lafferty"
description: "Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction writer best known for his imaginative and eccentric short stories and novels from the 1960s and 1970s."
tagline: "American writer (1914–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R._A._Lafferty%2C_in_his_library.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1914-11-07"
deathDate: "2002-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump