# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brad-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:07:37.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brad-watson"
name: "Brad Watson"
slug: "brad-watson"
description: "Wilton Brad Watson was an American author and teacher of creative writing. Originally from Mississippi, he worked and lived in Alabama, Florida, California, Boston, and Wyoming. He was a professor at the University of Wyoming from 2005 until his death in 2020. In his lifetime Watson published four books – two novels and two collections of short stories – to critical acclaim; a collection of stories was published posthumously."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brad_Watson_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-07-24"
deathDate: "2020-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.343377333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://wiltonbradwatson.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Watson"
    title: "Brad Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "براد واطسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "براد واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Watson_(writer)"
    title: "Brad Watson (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Watson"
    title: "Brad Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Watson"
    title: "Brad Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Watson"
    title: "Brad Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4954347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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