Ernest Cline

I can't think about Ernest Cline without grinning at how perfectly the kid from Ashland, Ohio became the patron saint of nostalgia overload. Ready Player One is basically a love letter to the same arcades and VHS tapes I'd expect a 1972-born screenwriter to have grown up worshipping, and there's something fitting about Spielberg, the very source of so much of that 80s mythology, directing the film he co-wrote. The slam-poetry roots tell me he treats geek trivia as something to perform, not just list. Armada and Ready Player Two never matched the original spark for me, but I respect a writer who turned pure fandom into a career.

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Name (English)

Ernest Cline

Name (Japanese)

アーネスト・クライン

Reading

あーねすと・くらいん

Born

March 29, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Ashland, Ohio, United States

Occupation

writer / screenwriter / comedian / science fiction writer / journalist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rat

High school

Ashland High School

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.ernestcline.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Cline
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3732112

Tags

• Ohio
• writer
• screenwriter
• comedian

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.