# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-pfaff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:39:59.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-pfaff"
name: "William Pfaff"
slug: "william-pfaff"
description: "William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books."
tagline: "American journalist (1928–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Pfaff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1928-12-29"
deathDate: "2015-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.82
  momentum:             15.46875
  historical:           7.071490666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.williampfaff.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%BE%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%81"
    title: "ويليام پفاف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "William Pfaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "William Pfaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "William Pfaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "William Pfaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "William Pfaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Pfaff"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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