# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-kurtz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:50:27.027Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-kurtz"
name: "Katherine Kurtz"
slug: "katherine-kurtz"
description: "Katherine Irene Kurtz is an American fantasy writer, author of sixteen historical fantasy novels in the Deryni series, as well as occult and urban fantasy. Resident in Ireland for over twenty years, she moved to Virginia in 2007."
tagline: "American fantasy writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherine_Kurtz_June_2018-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.10810266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كاثرين كورتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Катрин Курц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Kurtz"
    title: "Katherine Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Kurtz"
    title: "Katherine Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Kurtz"
    title: "Katherine Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Kurtz"
    title: "Katherine Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Kurtz"
    title: "Katherine Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katherine Kurtz"
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    title: "Куртц, Кэтрин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кетрін Курц"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump