# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-bova
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:48:14.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-bova"
name: "Ben Bova"
slug: "ben-bova"
description: "Benjamin William Bova was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America."
tagline: "American writer (1932–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Bova_at_Minicon_8(1974).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-11-08"
deathDate: "2020-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "BenBova"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100550/"
    handle:    "nm0100550"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump