# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erin-gruwell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:02:28.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erin-gruwell"
name: "Erin Gruwell"
slug: "erin-gruwell"
description: "Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The 2007 film Freedom Writers and the 2019 PBS documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart are based on her story."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ErinGruwellByPhilKonstantin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.68512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1952250/"
    handle:    "nm1952250"
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    title: "Erin Gruwell"
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    title: "Erin Gruwell"
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    title: "Erin Gruwell"
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    title: "Erin Gruwell"
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    title: "Erin Gruwell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump