# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kate-dicamillo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:24:19.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kate-dicamillo"
name: "Kate DiCamillo"
slug: "kate-dicamillo"
description: "Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo is an American author of children's fiction. She has published over 25 novels, including Because of Winn-Dixie (2000), The Tiger Rising (2001), The Tale of Despereaux (2003), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006), The Magician's Elephant (2009), the Mercy Watson series (2005–2022), and Flora & Ulysses (2013). Her books have sold around 37 million copies. Four have been developed into films and two have been adapted into musical settings. The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses won the Newbery Medal, making DiCamillo one of seven authors to have won two Newbery Medals."
tagline: "American children's writer (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2018-us-nationalbookfestival-kate-dicamillo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-03-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump