# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-shea
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:08:19.385Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-shea"
name: "Robert Shea"
slug: "robert-shea"
description: "Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus! It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings."
tagline: "American novelist and journalist (1933–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bob_shea_1060521.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-02-14"
deathDate: "1994-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             8.235294117647058
  historical:           12.247808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Роберт Ші"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "روبرت شي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "روبرت شى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ロバート・シェイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Ши, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shea"
    title: "Robert Shea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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