# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-langewiesche
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:02:17.141Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-langewiesche"
name: "William Langewiesche"
slug: "william-langewiesche"
description: "William Archibald Langewiesche was an American author, journalist and commercial pilot. After taking part in aviation and flying airplanes he worked with a large-circulation aviation publication, Flying. As an author and journalist he worked as a correspondent for 16 years with The Atlantic and 13 years with Vanity Fair magazine. From 2019 until his death in 2025, he was a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine. He was the author of nine books and the winner of two National Magazine Awards."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Langewiesche.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-06-12"
deathDate: "2025-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.11
  momentum:             1.423862887277521
  historical:           7.062388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2642945/"
    handle:    "nm2642945"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%92"
    title: "ولیم لینگویشے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "وليم لانغويش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4%DA%86%D9%87"
    title: "ویلیام لانقویشچه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Langewiesche"
    title: "William Langewiesche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Langewiesche"
    title: "William Langewiesche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Langewiesche"
    title: "William Langewiesche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Langewiesche"
    title: "William Langewiesche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568774"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4719666"
    title: "William Langewiesche"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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