# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-v-forrest
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:29.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-v-forrest"
name: "Katherine V. Forrest"
slug: "katherine-v-forrest"
description: "Katherine V. Forrest is a Canadian-born American writer, best known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. Her books have won and been finalists for Lambda Literary Award twelve times, as well as other awards. She has been referred to by some \"a founding mother of lesbian fiction writing.\""
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.47
  momentum:             1.411764705882353
  historical:           7.413824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest"
    title: "Katherine V. Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A._%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "كاثرين في. فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%89._%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "كاثرين فى. فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest"
    title: "Katherine V. Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest"
    title: "Katherine V. Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest"
    title: "Katherine V. Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest"
    title: "Katherine V. Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest"
    title: "Katherine V. Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q547053"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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