# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kira-salak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:54:44.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kira-salak"
name: "Kira Salak"
slug: "kira-salak"
description: "Kira Salak is an American writer, adventurer, and journalist known for her travels in Mali and Papua New Guinea. She has written two books of nonfiction and a book of fiction based on her travels and is a contributing editor at National Geographic magazine."
tagline: "Writer, adventurer, and journalist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1971-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.7
  momentum:             10.21276595744681
  historical:           5.275126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kirasalak.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Salak"
    title: "Kira Salak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "كيرا سالاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "كيرا سالاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%A6%E6%8B%89%C2%B7%E8%8E%8E%E6%8B%89%E5%85%8B"
    title: "琦拉·莎拉克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Salak"
    title: "Kira Salak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9"
    title: "کیرا سالک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6414766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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