# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-j-cherryh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:51:10.380Z

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name: "C. J. Cherryh"
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description: "Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology."
tagline: "United States science fiction and fantasy author"
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birthDate: "1942-09-01"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump