# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-california-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:59.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-california-cooper"
name: "J. California Cooper"
slug: "j-california-cooper"
description: "Joan Cooper, known by her pen name, J. California Cooper, was an American playwright and author. She wrote 17 plays and was named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978 for her play Strangers. Cooper also received an American Book Award in 1989, a James Baldwin Writing Award (1988), and a Literary Lion Award (1988) from the American Library Association."
tagline: "American playwright, novelist. short story writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/J._California_Cooper.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-11-10"
deathDate: "2014-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.27
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           6.349029333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178106/"
    handle:    "nm0178106"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._California_Cooper"
    title: "J. California Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A._%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "جي. كاليفورنيا كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._California_Cooper"
    title: "J. California Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._California_Cooper"
    title: "J. California Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._California_Cooper"
    title: "J. California Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._California_Cooper"
    title: "J. California Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6105084"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1325563"
    title: "J. California Cooper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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