# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-van-allsburg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:07:51.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-van-allsburg"
name: "Chris Van Allsburg"
slug: "chris-van-allsburg"
description: "Chris Van Allsburg is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote, and were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012."
tagline: "US children's writer and illustrator (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_van_Allsburg_-_Northborough_MA_12-2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-06-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.82518533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0885575"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chrisvanallsburg.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump