# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cynthia-barnett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:34:24.957Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cynthia-barnett"
name: "Cynthia Barnett"
slug: "cynthia-barnett"
description: "Cynthia Barnett is an American journalist who specializes in the environment. She is the author of the water books Mirage (2007), Blue Revolution (2011), Rain (2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing from the PEN America Center, and The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans (2021)."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cynthia_Barnett%2C_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.38
  momentum:             4.912280701754387
  historical:           4.60306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/cynthiabarnett"
    handle:    "cynthiabarnett"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Barnett"
    title: "Cynthia Barnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Barnett"
    title: "Cynthia Barnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Барнетт, Синтия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cynthia_Barnett"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cynthia_Barnett"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27733845"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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