# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lashner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:43:01.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lashner"
name: "William Lashner"
slug: "william-lashner"
description: "William Lashner is an American novelist who formerly worked as a trial lawyer. He is a graduate of NYU School of Law and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has served as trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Justice Department. He lives with his family outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
tagline: "American novelist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             1.660714285714286
  historical:           5.490174666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lashner"
    title: "William Lashner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام لاشنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lashner"
    title: "William Lashner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Lashner"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lashner"
    title: "William Lashner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lashner"
    title: "William Lashner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q606154"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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