# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-sewell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:20:20.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-sewell"
name: "Helen Sewell"
slug: "helen-sewell"
description: "Helen Moore Sewell was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. She won a Caldecott Medal Honor as illustrator of The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh and she illustrated several novels that were runners-up for the Newbery Medal.\nSome of her papers were donated to the University of Minnesota, and other papers are at Cornell University."
tagline: "American children's illustrator and writer (1896-1957)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1896-06-27"
deathDate: "1957-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.607128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "هيلين سيويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "هيلين سيويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sewell"
    title: "Helen Sewell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C"
    title: "הלן סוול"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "హెలెన్ సెవెల్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5703123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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