# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-p-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:48:30.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-p-young"
name: "William P. Young"
slug: "william-p-young"
description: "William Paul Young is a Canadian author. He wrote the religious books The Shack, Cross Roads, Eve, and Lies We Believe About God."
tagline: "Canadian Christian author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wm_Paul_Young%2C_author_of_The_Shack.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.683484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://wmpaulyoung.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "وليم بي. يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليم بى. يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уилям Пол Йънг"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paul_Young"
    title: "William Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Young"
    title: "William P. Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Young"
    title: "William P. Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paul_Young"
    title: "William Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paul_Young"
    title: "William Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Young"
    title: "William P. Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Young"
    title: "William P. Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William P. Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Viljamas_Polas_Jangas"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump