# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edna-buchanan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:49:27.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edna-buchanan"
name: "Edna Buchanan"
slug: "edna-buchanan"
description: "Edna Buchanan is an American journalist and writer who is best known for her crime mystery novels. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting \"for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting.\""
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-03-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.363249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118001/"
    handle:    "nm0118001"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ednabuchanan.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Buchanan"
    title: "Edna Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "إدنا بوكانان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ادنا بوكانان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Buchanan"
    title: "Edna Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Buchanan"
    title: "Edna Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Buchanan"
    title: "Edna Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537202"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1308771"
    title: "Edna Buchanan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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