# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-vandermeer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:52:53.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-vandermeer"
name: "Jeff VanderMeer"
slug: "jeff-vandermeer"
description: "Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Series. The series' first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction."
tagline: "American writer (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JeffVanderMeer2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.23
  momentum:             3.05467168064796
  historical:           23.534168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump