# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lillian-faderman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:52.793Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lillian-faderman"
name: "Lillian Faderman"
slug: "lillian-faderman"
description: "Lillian Faderman is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards. The New York Times named three of her books on its \"Notable Books of the Year\" list. In addition, The Guardian named her book, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, one of the Top 10 Books of Radical History. She was a professor of English at California State University, Fresno, which bestowed her emeritus status, and a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She retired from academe in 2007. Faderman has been referred to as \"the mother of lesbian history\" for her groundbreaking research and writings on lesbian culture, literature, and history."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lillian_Faderman_Teddy_2026-4084.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.45
  momentum:             0.4768041237113402
  historical:           9.829268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7616007/"
    handle:    "nm7616007"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.lillianfaderman.net/"
sources:
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    title: "Ліліан Фадерман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليليان فادرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452159"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2342598"
    title: "Lillian Faderman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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