# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-leigh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:39.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-leigh"
name: "Richard Leigh"
slug: "richard-leigh"
description: "Richard Harris Leigh was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey, United States to a British father and an American mother, who spent most of his life in the UK. Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University in 1965, a master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook."
tagline: "American writer (1943–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-08-16"
deathDate: "2007-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.37
  momentum:             0.5084745762711864
  historical:           12.49186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1981579/"
    handle:    "nm1981579"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريتشارد لي (مؤلف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد لى (روائى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh_(author)"
    title: "Richard Leigh (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Ли, Ричард Харрис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leigh"
    title: "Richard Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cd4df06f-9cf0-4d65-bb2c-56ed95e17a30"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1032009"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2053715"
    title: "Richard Leighton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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