# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judith-merril
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:01.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judith-merril"
name: "Judith Merril"
slug: "judith-merril"
description: "Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles."
tagline: "American science fiction writer and editor (1923-1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Judith_Merril.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-01-21"
deathDate: "1997-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             0.3488372093023256
  historical:           14.91793066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2460468/"
    handle:    "nm2460468"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.judithmerril.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Джудіт Мерріл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'ודית מריל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジュディス・メリル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჯუდით მერილი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril"
    title: "Judith Merril"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276304"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Judith Merril"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump