# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carol-emshwiller
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:35:56.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carol-emshwiller"
name: "Carol Emshwiller"
slug: "carol-emshwiller"
description: "Carol Emshwiller was an American writer of avant-garde short stories and science fiction who won prizes for her work including the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her \"a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction.\" Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She also wrote two cowboy novels, Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007."
tagline: "American fiction writer (1921-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CarolEmshwillerCW98_wb.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-04-12"
deathDate: "2019-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.48391066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1449773/"
    handle:    "nm1449773"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller"
    title: "Carol Emshwiller"
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    title: "Carol Emshwiller"
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    title: "Керол Емшвіллер"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "DATABASE"

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