# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-zukav
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:17.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-zukav"
name: "Gary Zukav"
slug: "gary-zukav"
description: "Gary Zukav is an American author known for his works on human consciousness and spirituality, including four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Beginning in 1998, he appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in his book The Seat of the Soul. His first book, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979), won a U.S. National Book Award."
tagline: "American writer and revivalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GaryZukav220.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.93
  momentum:             8.542141230068337
  historical:           6.007493333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0970572/"
    handle:    "nm0970572"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://seatofthesoul.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Gary Zukav"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Zukav"
    title: "Gary Zukav"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Zukav"
    title: "Gary Zukav"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Zukav"
    title: "Gary Zukav"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gary_Zukav"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1494983"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1889757"
    title: "Gary Zukav"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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