# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-d-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:22:00.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-d-schmidt"
name: "Gary D. Schmidt"
slug: "gary-d-schmidt"
description: "Gary David Schmidt is an American author of children's and young adults' fiction books. He currently resides in Alto, Michigan, where he is a professor emeritus of English at Calvin University."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_D._Schmidt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.85
  momentum:             0.6030150753768843
  historical:           6.573725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%A8%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%82"
    title: "Гері Шмідт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%8A._%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "غاري دي. شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%89._%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جارى دى. شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_D._Schmidt"
    title: "Gary D. Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_D._Schmidt"
    title: "Gary D. Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "ゲイリー・シュミット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%82%2C_%D0%93%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%94."
    title: "Шмидт, Гэри Д."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5524939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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