# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-mann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:24:13.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-mann"
name: "William J. Mann"
slug: "william-j-mann"
description: "William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry, especially his 2006 biography of Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. Kate was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by The New York Times. Under the pseudonym Geoffrey Huntington he wrote the Ravenscliff series of young adult fantasy novels."
tagline: "American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.157093333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.williamjmann.com/"
sources:
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    title: "ولیم جے مان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام جاي مان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام جاى مان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Mann"
    title: "William J. Mann"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Mann"
    title: "William J. Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Mann"
    title: "William J. Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Mann"
    title: "William J. Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263562"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump