# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-bruce-cameron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:25:21.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-bruce-cameron"
name: "W. Bruce Cameron"
slug: "w-bruce-cameron"
description: "William Bruce Cameron is an American author, columnist, and humorist. Cameron is most famous for his novel A Dog's Purpose, which spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book is the basis for the movie version starring Dennis Quaid, Britt Robertson, Peggy Lipton, K.J. Apa, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, John Ortiz, and Pooch Hall, and released in theaters on January 27, 2017. A Dog's Purpose is followed by a sequel called A Dog's Journey, which Cameron, along with Cathryn Michon, adapted into a film of the same name."
tagline: "American humor columnist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce-cameron-mensa-ag.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.73
  momentum:             3.020134228187919
  historical:           7.252092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1240326/"
    handle:    "nm1240326"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ويليام بروس كاميرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دبليو. بروس كاميرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Bruce_Cameron"
    title: "W. Bruce Cameron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Bruce_Cameron"
    title: "W. Bruce Cameron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دابلیو. بروس کامرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Bruce_Cameron"
    title: "W. Bruce Cameron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8E%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Вільям Брюс Камерон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7945367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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