# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-dewitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:30:40.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-dewitt"
name: "Helen DeWitt"
slug: "helen-dewitt"
description: "Helen DeWitt is an American novelist. She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai (2000) and Lightning Rods (2011) and the short story collection Some Trick (2018). In 2025, a novel which she co-wrote with Ilya Gridneff and published on her website in 2008, Your Name Here, was republished as a commercial book."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_DeWitt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.64748933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "helen-dewitt-9318654"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://helendewitt.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump