# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-fergus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:58.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-fergus"
name: "Jim Fergus"
slug: "jim-fergus"
description: "Jim Fergus is an American author. He has a degree in English from Colorado College and has worked as a tennis teacher and full-time freelance writer. His first novel was One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over one million copies in the United States. The French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Fergus_-_2019_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.74
  momentum:             1.75609756097561
  historical:           4.829412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جيم فيرغوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جيم فيرجوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fergus"
    title: "Jim Fergus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fergus"
    title: "Jim Fergus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%8E%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Фергюс, Джим (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6194939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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