# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:41.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-simmons"
name: "Dan Simmons"
slug: "dan-simmons"
description: "Daniel Joseph Simmons was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz."
tagline: "American novelist (1948–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Simmons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-04-04"
deathDate: "2026-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.76406
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 245
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799721/"
    handle:    "nm0799721"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dansimmons.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دان سيمونس"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ダン・シモンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "დენ სიმონსი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%84_%EC%8B%9C%EB%A8%BC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "댄 시먼스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump