# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ann-petry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:58:22.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ann-petry"
name: "Ann Petry"
slug: "ann-petry"
description: "Ann Petry was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies."
tagline: "American writer and journalist (1908–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Ann_Petry_writer.jpg/330px-Ann_Petry_writer.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1908-10-12"
deathDate: "1997-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.167101333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry"
    title: "Ann Petry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ان پيترى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry"
    title: "Ann Petry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry"
    title: "Ann Petry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry"
    title: "Ann Petry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry"
    title: "Ann Petry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry"
    title: "Ann Petry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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