Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Anson

Jay Anson

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Redirect to The Amityville Horror. I did WP:BEFORE and there are a lot of reviews of The Amityville Horror and notices about his death. I wasn't able to find anything else about him outside of those two events. I checked Archive.org and Google but nothing was jumping out at me. Since I nominated this article if anyone finds some sources please ping me so I can add them to the article and I'll withdraw the nomination. Dr vulpes (Talk) 00:52, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Authors. Dr vulpes (Talk) 00:52, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: California and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:50, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the redirect. He's not independently notable. As far as I've seen, coverage is always about the book. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:18, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. While Jay Anson published only two books, one of them started a major horror phenomenon. As for his own notability, he had an obituary in The New York Times (link), was the subject of a 1978 profile in the NYT (link), is the focus of this 1979 profile in Writers Digest (link), has entries in books such as Hooked on Horror by Anthony J. Fonseca, and is listed in the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia as one of the authors who helped started the emergence of a new type of horror in the late 20th century (link can be found through Wikipedia Library). It's easy to meet many of these articles about Anson b/c there were published in the late 1970s and early '80s. Add in the large number of reviews in a number of publications for Anson's two books and he easily meets WP:Author. Yes, the article needs major work but the proof of notability is there.--SouthernNights (talk) 14:47, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]