# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-lynch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:44:39.883Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-lynch"
name: "Scott Lynch"
slug: "scott-lynch"
description: "Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author, best known for the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series of novels. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was purchased by Orion Books in August 2004 and published in June 2006 under the Gollancz imprint in the United Kingdom and under the Bantam imprint in the United States. The next two novels in the series, Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves, were published in 2007 and 2013, respectively. The planned fourth of seven books in the series will be The Thorn of Emberlain."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_Lynch_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.13368933333334
  currentAttention:     8.28
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "scottlynchwriter"
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    handle:    "nm2190058"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump