# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carolyn-gold-heilbrun
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:14:04.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carolyn-gold-heilbrun"
name: "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"
slug: "carolyn-gold-heilbrun"
description: "Carolyn Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide."
tagline: "Novelist (1926-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amanda_Cross.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-01-13"
deathDate: "2003-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.970341333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كارولين غولد هيلبرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9"
    title: "アマンダ・クロス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun"
    title: "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272811"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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