# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-s-van-dine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:10:59.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-s-van-dine"
name: "S. S. Van Dine"
slug: "s-s-van-dine"
description: "S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre–World War I New York, and under the pen name he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in novels, starting with The Benson Murder Case (1926), then in films and on the radio."
tagline: "American art critic and writer (1888–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willard_H._Wright%2C_1930s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-10-15"
deathDate: "1939-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2531645569620253
  historical:           20.30822133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886597/"
    handle:    "nm0886597"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump