# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hanya-yanagihara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:59:02.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hanya-yanagihara"
name: "Hanya Yanagihara"
slug: "hanya-yanagihara"
description: "Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii. She is best known for her bestselling novel A Little Life, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, and for being the editor-in-chief of T Magazine."
tagline: "American novelist and travel writer (1974-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Image_Credit-_Wirasathya_Darmaja._Hanya_Yanagihara-_A_Little_Life._Neka_Museum._-_30675717626_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           24.386472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump