# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:00:30.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-welch"
name: "James Welch"
slug: "james-welch"
description: "James Phillip Welch Jr., who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet. He is considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in the Blood (1974) was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013."
tagline: "Native American writer (1940–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Jameswelch.jpg/330px-Jameswelch.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-11-18"
deathDate: "2003-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.907310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "جيمس ولتش (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس ولتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز ولچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Welch"
    title: "James Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Welch"
    title: "James Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Welch_(writer)"
    title: "James Welch (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%88%D9%84%DA%86"
    title: "جیمز ولچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Welch"
    title: "James Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Welch_(skriuwer)"
    title: "James Welch (skriuwer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Welch"
    title: "James Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%86_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81)"
    title: "جیمز ویلچ (مصنف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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