# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ashley-bryan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:31.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ashley-bryan"
name: "Ashley Bryan"
slug: "ashley-bryan"
description: "Ashley Frederick Bryan was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor."
tagline: "American children's writer and illustrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ashley_Bryan_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-07-13"
deathDate: "2022-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             0.9473684210526314
  historical:           7.013428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1865738/"
    handle:    "nm1865738"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%88%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD"
    title: "Ешлі Браян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "أشلي بريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan"
    title: "Ashley Bryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اشلی برایان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan"
    title: "Ashley Bryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan"
    title: "Ashley Bryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan"
    title: "Ashley Bryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4805375"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3030907"
    title: "Ashley Bryan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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