# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellis-avery
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:15:39.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellis-avery"
name: "Ellis Avery"
slug: "ellis-avery"
description: "Ellis Avery was an American writer. She was the only author to win two Stonewall Book Awards, one in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and one in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude. The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007. She self-published her memoir, The Family Tooth, in 2015. Her final book, Tree of Cats, was independently published posthumously."
tagline: "American writer (1972-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellis_Avery_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-10-25"
deathDate: "2019-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.876782666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ellis Avery"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellis Avery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellis Avery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellis Avery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellis Avery"
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    title: "ਏਲੀਸ ਐਵਰੀ"
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    title: "ایلس ایوری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump