# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-fitzgerald
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:21:19.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-fitzgerald"
name: "Frances FitzGerald"
slug: "frances-fitzgerald"
description: "Frances FitzGerald is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award."
tagline: "American journalist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frances_FitzGerald_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1940-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.37
  momentum:             5.243589743589743
  historical:           8.575057333333334
  currentAttention:     28.2051282051282
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فرانسس فٹز جیرالڈ (صحافی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانسيس فيتزجيرالد (صحفية)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "فرانسيس فيتزجيرالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald_(Journalistin)"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald (Journalistin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald_(journalist)"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald_(periodista)"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald (periodista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald"
    title: "Frances FitzGerald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5478653"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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