# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esphyr-slobodkina
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:09:00.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esphyr-slobodkina"
name: "Esphyr Slobodkina"
slug: "esphyr-slobodkina"
description: "Esphyr Solomonovna Slobodkina was a Russian-born American artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale. Slobodkina was a celebrated avant garde artist and feminist in the middle part of the 20th century."
tagline: "Russian American artist, children's illustrator and writer (1908-2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Photo_of_Esphyr_Slobodkina.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-09-22"
deathDate: "2002-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.92
  momentum:             0.05044136191677176
  historical:           7.495358666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Esphyr Slobodkina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "اسفير سلوبودكينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esphyr_Slobodkina"
    title: "Esphyr Slobodkina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esphyr_Slobodkina"
    title: "Esphyr Slobodkina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esphyr_Slobodkina"
    title: "Esphyr Slobodkina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94"
    title: "אספיר סלובודקינה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%BD%D6%86%D5%AB%D6%80_%D5%8D%D5%AC%D5%B8%D5%A2%D5%B8%D5%A4%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1"
    title: "Էսֆիր Սլոբոդկինա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AD%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Слободкина, Эсфирь Соломоновна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Есфир Слободкина"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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