# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-childs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:30:37.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-childs"
name: "Roy Childs"
slug: "roy-childs"
description: "Roy Alan Childs Jr. was an American libertarian essayist and critic. Similar to Karl Hess and like Samuel Edward Konkin III, Childs saw himself as a left-libertarian."
tagline: "American libertarian essayist and critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roychilds.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-01-04"
deathDate: "1992-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.13
  momentum:             10.22515785975407
  historical:           5.475918666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Roy Childs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روي تشايلدز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روى تشايلدز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roy_Childs"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Childs"
    title: "Roy Childs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Childs"
    title: "Roy Childs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7372675"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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