# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-smith-q940902
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:52:14.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-smith-q940902"
name: "Scott Smith"
slug: "scott-smith-q940902"
description: "Scott Bechtel Smith is an American author and screenwriter. He has written two novels, A Simple Plan (1993) and The Ruins (2006). Both were adapted into films – A Simple Plan (1998) and The Ruins (2008), respectively – based on Smith's own screenplays. He also wrote the screenplays for the films Siberia (2018) and The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019). His screenplay for A Simple Plan earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay."
tagline: "American author and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ScottSmith2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.34
  momentum:             0.7003729796933279
  historical:           15.55961866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809895/"
    handle:    "nm0809895"
sources:
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    title: "Скотт Сміт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Смит, Скотт (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سكوت سميث (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Скот Смит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Smith_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Scott Smith (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Smith_(author)"
    title: "Scott Smith (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Smith_(escritor)"
    title: "Scott Smith (escritor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "اسکات اسمیت (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Smith (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%98_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA'"
    title: "סקוט סמית'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott B. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "スコット・スミス (小説家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "스콧 스미스 (작가)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Smith (roteirista)"
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    title: "Scott B. Smith"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1814865"
    title: "Scott Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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