# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betty-fussell
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:55:23.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betty-fussell"
name: "Betty Fussell"
slug: "betty-fussell"
description: "Betty Ellen Fussell is an American writer and is the author of 12 books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir. Over the last 50 years, her essays on food, travel and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Vogue, Food & Wine, Metropolitan Home and Gastronomica. Her memoir, My Kitchen Wars, was performed in Hollywood and New York as a one-woman show by actress Dorothy Lyman. Her most recent books are Eat Live Love Die, and How to Cook a Coyote: The Joy of Old Age."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betty_Fussell_TedxManhattan_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           27.82
  momentum:             5
  historical:           5.733657333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "بيتي فوسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتى فوسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Betty Fussell"
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    title: "बेट्टी फसेल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ベティ・フッセル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Fussell"
    title: "Betty Fussell"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3908231"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump