# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allen-say
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:59:08.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allen-say"
name: "Allen Say"
slug: "allen-say"
description: "Allen Say is a Japanese-American writer and illustrator. He is best known for Grandfather's Journey, a children's picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal for illustration. This story is autobiographical and relates to Say's constant moving during his childhood. His work mainly focuses on Japanese and Japanese American characters and their stories, and several works have autobiographical elements."
tagline: "Japanese-American author and illustrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Allen_Say.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.482974666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say"
    title: "Allen Say"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "الين ساى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say"
    title: "Allen Say"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4"
    title: "アレン・セイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say"
    title: "Allen Say"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say"
    title: "Allen Say"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4731868"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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