# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-vizenor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:36:35.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-vizenor"
name: "Gerald Vizenor"
slug: "gerald-vizenor"
description: "Gerald Robert Vizenor is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published, Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico."
tagline: "American writer (born 1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vizenor_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-10-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.162889333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/vizenor/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جيرالد ڤيزينور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جرالد ویزنور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Vizenor"
    title: "Gerald Vizenor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Vizenor"
    title: "Gerald Vizenor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جرالد ویزنور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Vizenor"
    title: "Gerald Vizenor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1510036"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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