# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bell-hooks
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:32.699Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bell-hooks"
name: "bell hooks"
slug: "bell-hooks"
description: "Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality. She published numerous scholarly articles and nearly 40 books, in styles ranging from essays and poetry to children's literature, with a body of work that addressed love, gender, art, history, sexuality, and mass media."
tagline: "American author and activist (1952–2021)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-09-25"
deathDate: "2021-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump