# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lindsay-gresham
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:34:41.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lindsay-gresham"
name: "William Lindsay Gresham"
slug: "william-lindsay-gresham"
description: "William Lindsay Gresham was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted to film in 1947 and 2021."
tagline: "American novelist, nonfiction writer (1909–1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Lindsay_Gresham_writer.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-08-20"
deathDate: "1962-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.42
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.325424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340343/"
    handle:    "nm0340343"
sources:
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    title: "Вилијам Линдзи Грешам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليم ليندسي غريشام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindsay_Gresham"
    title: "William Lindsay Gresham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindsay_Gresham"
    title: "William Lindsay Gresham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindsay_Gresham"
    title: "William Lindsay Gresham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindsay_Gresham"
    title: "William Lindsay Gresham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindsay_Gresham"
    title: "William Lindsay Gresham"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938844"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84231"
    title: "William Lindsay Gresham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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