# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alistair-macleod
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:53.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alistair-macleod"
name: "Alistair MacLeod"
slug: "alistair-macleod"
description: "Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an oral tradition."
tagline: "Canadian author and professor of English (1936–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alistair_MacLeod_reading_at_Cape_Breton_University.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-07-20"
deathDate: "2014-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.251948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2053036"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump