# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-slonczewski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:27:04.403Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-slonczewski"
name: "Joan Slonczewski"
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description: "Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011). With John W. Foster and Erik Zinser, they coauthor the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science now in its fifth edition."
tagline: "American microbiologist and writer"
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birthDate: "1956-08-14"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump