# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-kraus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:23:59.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-kraus"
name: "Chris Kraus"
slug: "chris-kraus"
description: "Chris Kraus is an American and New Zealand writer, critic, editor, filmmaker, performance artist, and educator. Her work includes the novels I Love Dick, Aliens and Anorexia, and Torpor, which form a loose trilogy that navigates between autobiography, fiction, philosophy, critical theory, and art criticism. She has also written a sequence of novels dealing with American underclass experience, beginning with Summer of Hate. Her approach to writing has been described as ‘performance art within the medium of writing’ and ‘a bright map of presence’. Kraus' work often blends intellectual, political, and sexual concerns with wit, oscillating between esoteric referencing and parody. Her work has drawn controversy for equalizing high and low culture, mixing critical theory with colloquial language, and graphic representations of sex."
tagline: "American writer and filmmaker (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Kraus%2C_Royal_College_of_Art%2C_2015_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.98
  momentum:             0.1571063207891852
  historical:           11.23341333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6535791/"
    handle:    "nm6535791"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A4%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81)"
    title: "کرس کراؤس (مصنف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9)"
    title: "كريس كراوس (كاتبة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "كريس كراوس (مخرجه افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus_(escriptora)"
    title: "Chris Kraus (escriptora)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus_(Schriftstellerin)"
    title: "Chris Kraus (Schriftstellerin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus_(writer)"
    title: "Chris Kraus (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus"
    title: "Chris Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus_(%C3%A9crivaine)"
    title: "Chris Kraus (écrivaine)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus_(scrittrice)"
    title: "Chris Kraus (scrittrice)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus"
    title: "Chris Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus"
    title: "Chris Kraus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%81_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8F)"
    title: "Кріс Краус (письменниця)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1077428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16780"
    title: "Chris Kraus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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