# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellen-willis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:04.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellen-willis"
name: "Ellen Willis"
slug: "ellen-willis"
description: "Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellen_willis.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1941-12-14"
deathDate: "2006-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.754098360655738
  historical:           18.18978133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 190
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    title: "Ellen Willis"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump