# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-reiss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:38.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-reiss"
name: "Tom Reiss"
slug: "tom-reiss"
description: "Tom Reiss is an American author, historian, and journalist. He is the author of three nonfiction books, the latest of which is The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (2012), which received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His previous books are Führer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi (1996), the first inside exposé of the European neo-Nazi movement; and The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life (2005), which became an international bestseller. As a journalist, Reiss has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times."
tagline: "American author, historian, and journalist (b. 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Reiss_portrait_Paris.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.686106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.tomreiss.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Reiss"
    title: "Tom Reiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "توم ريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "توم ريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Рейсс, Том"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Reiss"
    title: "Tom Reiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Reiss"
    title: "Tom Reiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4392713"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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