# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joy-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:10:58.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joy-williams"
name: "Joy Williams"
slug: "joy-williams"
description: "Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Best-known for her short fiction, she is also the author of novels including State of Grace, The Quick and the Dead, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joy_Williams_20220519.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-02-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.87
  momentum:             0.6693711967545638
  historical:           6.608717333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(American_writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9)"
    title: "جوي وليامز (كاتبة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(Schriftstellerin%2C_1944)"
    title: "Joy Williams (Schriftstellerin, 1944)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(American_writer)"
    title: "Joy Williams (American writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(escritora)"
    title: "Joy Williams (escritora)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Joy Williams (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(scrittrice_statunitense)"
    title: "Joy Williams (scrittrice statunitense)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6297286"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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