# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cynthia-leitich-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:47:30.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cynthia-leitich-smith"
name: "Cynthia Leitich Smith"
slug: "cynthia-leitich-smith"
description: "Cynthia Leitich Smith is an American author of fiction for children and young adults. A citizen of the Muscogee Nation, her fiction centers on the lives of modern-day Native Americans."
tagline: "American writer and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cynthia_leitich_smith_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.09
  momentum:             0.361842105263158
  historical:           5.278006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/cynthialeitichsmith/"
    handle:    "cynthialeitichsmith"
sources:
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    title: "Cynthia Leitich Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cynthia Leitich Smith"
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    title: "سینتیا اکتیک اسمیت"
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    title: "신시아 라이틱 스미스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Leitich_Smith"
    title: "Cynthia Leitich Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Leitich_Smith"
    title: "Cynthia Leitich Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895285"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump