# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avi
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:52:36.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/avi"
name: "Avi"
slug: "avi"
description: "Edward Irving Wortis, better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He won the Newbery Medal in 2003 for Crispin: The Cross of Lead, and was a runner-up in 1991 and 1992."
tagline: "American author of children's books"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.93
  momentum:             0.2662037037037037
  historical:           7.762462666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.avi-writer.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%88%DB%8C_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%81%D9%8A"
    title: "آفي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%81%D9%89"
    title: "آفى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%88%DB%8C_(%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "آوی (یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Irving_Wortis"
    title: "Edward Irving Wortis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_(author)"
    title: "Avi (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%88%DB%8C_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "آوی (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%93%9C%EC%9B%8C%EB%93%9C_%EC%9B%8C%ED%8B%B0%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "에드워드 워티스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Avi_(author)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1273533"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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