# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stanley-ellin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:30:12.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stanley-ellin"
name: "Stanley Ellin"
slug: "stanley-ellin"
description: "Stanley Bernard Ellin was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a brief tenure in the Army, at the insistence of his wife, Ellin began writing full time. While his novels are acclaimed, he is best known for his short stories. In May 1948, his first sale, and one of Ellin's most famous short stories, \"The Specialty of the House\", appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer (1916–1986)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-10-06"
deathDate: "1986-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.029376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254124/"
    handle:    "nm0254124"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ستانلي إلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستانلى الين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стенли Елин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ellin"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ellin"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ellin"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ellin"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ellin"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ellin"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "スタンリイ・エリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эллин, Стэнли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "史丹利·艾林"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40166"
    title: "Stanley Ellin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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