# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thorne-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:52:04.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thorne-smith"
name: "Thorne Smith"
slug: "thorne-smith"
description: "James Thorne Smith Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, frequent drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s."
tagline: "American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction (1892–1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thorne_Smith.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-03-27"
deathDate: "1934-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.8
  momentum:             3.810032017075774
  historical:           5.513250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810158/"
    handle:    "nm0810158"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Smith"
    title: "Thorne Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "ثورن سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Smith"
    title: "Thorne Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Smith"
    title: "Thorne Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Smith"
    title: "Thorne Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2428988"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150627"
    title: "Thorne Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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