# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-vann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:22:17.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-vann"
name: "David Vann"
slug: "david-vann"
description: "David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Vann2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.12
  momentum:             14.57519432240622
  historical:           8.618725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://davidvann.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديفيد ڤان (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "David Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "David Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann_(writer)"
    title: "David Vann (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "David Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "David Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "David Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "David Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Vann"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1176950"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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