# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-least-heat-moon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:31:58.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-least-heat-moon"
name: "William Least Heat-Moon"
slug: "william-least-heat-moon"
description: "William Least Heat-Moon is an American travel writer and historian. He describes his heritage as English, Irish, and Osage. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys through the United States, including cross-country trips by boat and, in his best known work, about his journey in a 1975 Ford Econoline van."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Least_Heat-Moon_04B.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.002885333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام لياسانت هيات مون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon"
    title: "William Least Heat-Moon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon"
    title: "William Least Heat-Moon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon"
    title: "William Least Heat-Moon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon"
    title: "William Least Heat-Moon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon"
    title: "William Least Heat-Moon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4020069"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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