# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-raskin
# Generated: 2026-08-20T22:52:02.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-raskin"
name: "Barbara Raskin"
slug: "barbara-raskin"
description: "Barbara Raskin was an American journalist and novelist. She was known for her 1987 best-selling novel Hot Flashes."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Photo_of_Barbara_Raskin.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-08-25"
deathDate: "1999-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.76
  momentum:             16.31578947368421
  historical:           1.561197333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Raskin"
    title: "Barbara Raskin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112422235"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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