# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-cooney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:08:15.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-cooney"
name: "Barbara Cooney"
slug: "barbara-cooney"
description: "Barbara Cooney was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982). Her books have been translated into ten languages."
tagline: "American writer and illustrator of children's books"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-08-06"
deathDate: "2000-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.82
  momentum:             0.6592292089249494
  historical:           8.771169333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2198799/"
    handle:    "nm2198799"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney"
    title: "Barbara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney"
    title: "Barbara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "باربرا كوني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "باربرا كونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney"
    title: "Barbara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney"
    title: "Barbara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney"
    title: "Barbara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99"
    title: "ברברה קוני"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney"
    title: "Barbara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC"
    title: "バーバラ・クーニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4858829"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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