# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gail-carriger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:48.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gail-carriger"
name: "Gail Carriger"
slug: "gail-carriger"
description: "Gail Carriger is an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards."
tagline: "American archaeologist (as Tofa Borregaard) and fiction writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gail_Carriger_at_the_Multicultural_Steampunk_Panel%2C_Eastercon_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.757021333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://gailcarriger.com"
sources:
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    title: "Ґейл Керріґер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Carriger"
    title: "Gail Carriger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گیل کاریگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Carriger"
    title: "Gail Carriger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ゲイル・キャリガー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Carriger"
    title: "Gail Carriger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Carriger"
    title: "Gail Carriger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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