# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesmyn-ward
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:47:27.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesmyn-ward"
name: "Jesmyn Ward"
slug: "jesmyn-ward"
description: "Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jesmyn_Ward.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "jesmimi"
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    url:       "https://www.jesmynwardauthor.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump