# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-ehrenreich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:37:08.284Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-ehrenreich"
name: "Barbara Ehrenreich"
slug: "barbara-ehrenreich"
description: "Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize."
tagline: "American writer and journalist (1941–2022)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1941-08-26"
deathDate: "2022-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump