# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kessel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:55.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kessel"
name: "John Kessel"
slug: "john-kessel"
description: "John Joseph Vincent Kessel is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, Good News From Outer Space (1989), Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997), The Moon and the Other (2017), and Pride and Prometheus (2018), and one novel, Freedom Beach (1985) in collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly. Kessel is married to author Therese Anne Fowler."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kessel_(2017).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.34823733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0450261/"
    handle:    "nm0450261"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-website"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джон Кесел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel"
    title: "John Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Джон Кессел"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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