# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-guterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:14.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-guterson"
name: "David Guterson"
slug: "david-guterson"
description: "David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Japanese American internment novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Guterson_2013_Cologne_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump