# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-novak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:58:22.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-novak"
name: "William Novak"
slug: "william-novak"
description: "William Novak is an American author who has co-written or ghostwritten numerous celebrity memoirs for people including Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson. He is also the editor, with Moshe Waldoks, of The Big Book of Jewish Humor. He has also written several \"private\" books, which he described in a 2015 essay for \nThe New York Times."
tagline: "Canadian-American author"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.382232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1256313/"
    handle:    "nm1256313"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Novak"
    title: "William Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24565876"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1933647"
    title: "William Novak"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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