# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-d-vinge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:14:52.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-d-vinge"
name: "Joan D. Vinge"
slug: "joan-d-vinge"
description: "Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author. She is known for her Hugo Award–winning novel The Snow Queen (1980) and its sequels, her series about a telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books. She also is the author of The Random House Book of Greek Myths (1999)."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_D._Vinge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.454216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump