# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-grier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:13:10.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-grier"
name: "Barbara Grier"
slug: "barbara-grier"
description: "Barbara Glycine Grier was an American writer and publisher. She is credited as one of the leaders of the women in print movement during second-wave feminism, responsible for building the lesbian book industry. After editing The Ladder magazine, published by the lesbian civil rights group Daughters of Bilitis, she co-founded a lesbian book-publishing company Naiad Press, which achieved publicity and became the world's largest publisher of lesbian books. She built a major collection of lesbian literature, catalogued with detailed indexing of topics."
tagline: "Writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-11-04"
deathDate: "2011-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.16
  momentum:             2.777777777777778
  historical:           7.875774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "باربرا جرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "باربرا جرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Grier"
    title: "Barbara Grier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2883955"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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