# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-gino
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:48:00.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-gino"
name: "Alex Gino"
slug: "alex-gino"
description: "Alex Gino is a genderqueer American children's book writer. Gino's debut book, Melissa, was the winner of the 2016 Stonewall Book Award and the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Children's/Young Adult."
tagline: "American children's book writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Gino_on_September_15%2C_2016_at_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin.jpg?width=1200"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.830168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lxgino"
    handle:    "lxgino"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/authoralexgino"
    handle:    "authoralexgino"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alexgino.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gino"
    title: "Alex Gino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gino"
    title: "Alex Gino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "الکس جینو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gino"
    title: "Alex Gino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gino"
    title: "Alex Gino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24234798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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