# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-dionne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:00:10.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-dionne"
name: "Karen Dionne"
slug: "karen-dionne"
description: "Karen Dionne is an American writer, whose internationally bestselling 2017 psychological suspense novel The Marsh King's Daughter was selected by Library Journal as one of the best thrillers of the year. The Marsh King's Daughter was recognized as the best book of 2017 by Suspense Magazine, which gave the book their \"Crimson Scribe\" award, the highest honor the magazine bestows. Translation rights have been sold in 25 languages. The 2023 film The Marsh King's Daughter directed by Neil Burger and starring Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn and Garrett Hedlund is a film adaptation of that book."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Author_Karen_Dionne_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             0.782472613458529
  historical:           5.024804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/karendionne"
    handle:    "karendionne"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.karen-dionne.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كارين ديون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dionne"
    title: "Karen Dionne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dionne"
    title: "Karen Dionne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dionne"
    title: "Karen Dionne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dionne"
    title: "Karen Dionne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29656096"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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