# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-crais
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:33:37.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-crais"
name: "Robert Crais"
slug: "robert-crais"
description: "Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction and former screenwriter. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. His writing is influenced by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais has won numerous awards for his crime novels. Lee Child has cited him in interviews as one of his favourite American crime writers. The novels of Robert Crais have been published in 62 countries and are bestsellers around the world. Robert Crais received the Ross Macdonald Literary Award in 2006 and was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2014."
tagline: "Novelist, screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Crais.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.165384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186101/"
    handle:    "nm0186101"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.robertcrais.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Робърт Крейс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ロバート・クレイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crais"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Крайс, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Роберт Крейс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922053"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20841"
    title: "Robert Crais"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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