# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-west-q371930
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:00:38.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-west-q371930"
name: "Dorothy West"
slug: "dorothy-west-q371930"
description: "Dorothy West was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s."
tagline: "American writer (1907-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_West_(13270144833).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-06-02"
deathDate: "1998-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.96
  momentum:             7.215088282504013
  historical:           12.27722
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "多萝西·韦斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوروثى الغربيه"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Դորոտի Ուեստ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy West"
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    title: "Уэст, Дороти"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump