# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-dunn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:33.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-dunn"
name: "Katherine Dunn"
slug: "katherine-dunn"
description: "Katherine Karen Dunn was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for her novel Geek Love (1989). She was also a prolific writer on boxing."
tagline: "American novelist, journalist, poet (1945–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/Katherine_Dunn.jpg/330px-Katherine_Dunn.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-10-24"
deathDate: "2016-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             3.543741287024767
  historical:           9.941078666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كاثرين دان"
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    title: "كاثرين دان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katherine Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn"
    title: "Katherine Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn"
    title: "Katherine Dunn"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کاترین دان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn"
    title: "Katherine Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn"
    title: "Katherine Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn"
    title: "Katherine Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3813366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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