# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-anne-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:01:58.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-anne-porter"
name: "Katherine Anne Porter"
slug: "katherine-anne-porter"
description: "Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in the United States that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter."
tagline: "American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist (1890–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherne_Anne_Porter_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1890-05-15"
deathDate: "1980-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.76902
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump