# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hisaye-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:58:33.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hisaye-yamamoto"
name: "Hisaye Yamamoto"
slug: "hisaye-yamamoto"
description: "Hisaye Yamamoto was an American author known for the short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, first published in 1988. Her work confronts issues of the Japanese immigrant experience in America, the disconnect between first and second-generation immigrants, as well as the difficult role of women in society."
tagline: "American writer (1921–2011)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-08-23"
deathDate: "2011-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.04
  momentum:             4.8
  historical:           5.680238666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisaye_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hisaye Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%87_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "هسیه یاماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisaye_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hisaye Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E4%B9%85%E6%9E%9D"
    title: "山本久枝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisaye_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hisaye Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A2%E3%83%88"
    title: "ヒサエ・ヤマモト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5772467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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