# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-louis-berger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:22:32.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-louis-berger"
name: "Thomas Louis Berger"
slug: "thomas-louis-berger"
description: "Thomas Louis Berger was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career, including the crime novel, the hard-boiled detective story, science fiction, the utopian novel, plus re-workings of classical mythology, Arthurian legend, and the survival adventure."
tagline: "American novelist (1924–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas-Berger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-07-20"
deathDate: "2014-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.95
  momentum:             1.176470588235294
  historical:           14.51044266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074383/"
    handle:    "nm0074383"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "توماس بيرغر (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "توماس بيرجر (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(Autor%2C_1924)"
    title: "Thomas Berger (Autor, 1924)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Thomas Berger (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(romancier)"
    title: "Thomas Berger (romancier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Бергер, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger"
    title: "Thomas Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Томас Бергер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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