# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-pynchon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:26:07.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-pynchon"
name: "William Pynchon"
slug: "william-pynchon"
description: "William Pynchon was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was also a colonial treasurer, original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the iconoclastic author of the New World's first banned book."
tagline: "Founder of Springfield, Massachusetts 1590-1662"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Pynchon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1590-10-11"
deathDate: "1662-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.16
  momentum:             0.124223602484472
  historical:           5.707742666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pynchon"
    title: "William Pynchon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام پينتشون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pynchon"
    title: "William Pynchon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E5%93%81%E9%92%A6"
    title: "威廉·品钦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pynchon"
    title: "William Pynchon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pynchon"
    title: "William Pynchon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762279"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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