# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-spanbauer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:08:14.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-spanbauer"
name: "Tom Spanbauer"
slug: "tom-spanbauer"
description: "Tom Spanbauer was an American writer whose work often explored issues of sexuality, race, and the ties that bind disparate people together. Raised in Idaho, Spanbauer lived in Kenya and across the United States. He later lived in Portland, Oregon, where he taught a course titled \"dangerous writing.\" He graduated in 1988 from Columbia University with an MFA in Fiction and wrote five novels."
tagline: "American writer (1946–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-06-30"
deathDate: "2024-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.497230666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.tomspanbauer.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spanbauer"
    title: "Tom Spanbauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spanbauer"
    title: "Tom Spanbauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spanbauer"
    title: "Tom Spanbauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Spanbauer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spanbauer"
    title: "Tom Spanbauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spanbauer"
    title: "Tom Spanbauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3530894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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