# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jessamyn-west
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:46:36.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jessamyn-west"
name: "Jessamyn West"
slug: "jessamyn-west"
description: "Mary Jessamyn West was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) degree from Whittier College in 1946. She received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1975."
tagline: "American author (1902–1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Jessamyn_West_photographed_by_Johan_Hagemeyer.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-07-18"
deathDate: "1984-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.06
  momentum:             0.3282275711159737
  historical:           8.367317333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922143/"
    handle:    "nm0922143"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "چيسامين ويست"
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    title: "Jessamyn West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(writer)"
    title: "Jessamyn West (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West"
    title: "Jessamyn West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West"
    title: "Jessamyn West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%8D%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Уэст, Джессамин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West"
    title: "Jessamyn West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72550"
    title: "Jessamyn West"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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