# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-wynn-fonstad
# Generated: 2026-08-15T21:22:38.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-wynn-fonstad"
name: "Karen Wynn Fonstad"
slug: "karen-wynn-fonstad"
description: "Karen Lea Wynn Fonstad was an American cartographer and academic who designed several atlases of fictional worlds, including her 1981 The Atlas of Middle-earth, a geographic guide to J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy world."
tagline: "American cartographer, academic (1945–2005)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1945-04-18"
deathDate: "2005-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump