# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jo-walton
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:53.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jo-walton"
name: "Jo Walton"
slug: "jo-walton"
description: "Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel Among Others, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and Tooth and Claw, a Victorian-era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. Other works by Walton include the Small Change series, in which she blends alternate history with the cozy mystery genre, comprising Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown. Her fantasy novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award, and her alternate history My Real Children received the 2015 Tiptree Award."
tagline: "Welsh Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jo_Walton_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.86643066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "BluejoWalton"
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    url:       "http://www.jowaltonbooks.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump