# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kotzwinkle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:06.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-kotzwinkle"
name: "William Kotzwinkle"
slug: "william-kotzwinkle"
description: "William Kotzwinkle is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. Kotzwinkle is known for writing the novelization of the screenplay for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, children's writer, screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.93
  momentum:             1.002066115702479
  historical:           10.30500666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467889/"
    handle:    "nm0467889"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%84%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ウィリアム・コツウィンクル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kotzwinkle"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Вільям Коцвінкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q639538"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2704114"
    title: "William Kotzwinkle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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