# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-paterson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:12.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-paterson"
name: "Katherine Paterson"
slug: "katherine-paterson"
description: "Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for \"lasting contribution to children's literature\" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to \"children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense\" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011."
tagline: "American children's writer born and mainly raised in China"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherine_Paterson--_Flint_Heart_(Children's_and_Teens'_Department)_(6191952393)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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