# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-marlowe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:05:54.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-marlowe"
name: "Stephen Marlowe"
slug: "stephen-marlowe"
description: "Stephen Marlowe was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created for the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. Lesser also wrote using the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Mlesser1953.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-08-07"
deathDate: "2008-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.24
  momentum:             5.234782608695652
  historical:           6.545429333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802678/"
    handle:    "nm1802678"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Marlowe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "ستيفن مارلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marlowe"
    title: "Stephen Marlowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marlowe"
    title: "Stephen Marlowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marlowe"
    title: "Stephen Marlowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6"
    title: "スティーヴン・マーロウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marlowe"
    title: "Stephen Marlowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3080496"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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