# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-e-b-griffin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:58.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-e-b-griffin"
name: "W. E. B. Griffin"
slug: "w-e-b-griffin"
description: "William Edmund Butterworth III, better known by his pen name W. E. B. Griffin, was an American writer of military and detective fiction with 59 novels in seven series published under that name. Twenty-one of those books were co-written with his son, William E Butterworth IV. He also published under 11 other pseudonyms and three versions of his real name."
tagline: "American author (1929-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-11-10"
deathDate: "2019-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.41
  momentum:             0.2479338842975207
  historical:           6.631433333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2872937/"
    handle:    "nm2872937"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://webgriffin.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._Griffin"
    title: "W.E.B. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام بتروورث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Griffin"
    title: "W. E. B. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Griffin"
    title: "W. E. B. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Griffin"
    title: "W. E. B. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%90%22%D7%91_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "וא\"ב גריפין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Griffin"
    title: "W. E. B. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2536700"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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