# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lois-duncan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:26:54.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lois-duncan"
name: "Lois Duncan"
slug: "lois-duncan"
description: "Lois Duncan Steinmetz, known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historians as a pioneering figure in the development of young-adult fiction, particularly in the genres of horror, thriller, and suspense."
tagline: "American young-adult and children's writer (1934-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lois_Duncan_Steinmetz_playing_the_accordion_aboard_the_shantyboat_Lazy_Bones_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-04-28"
deathDate: "2016-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.917311411992263
  historical:           15.04411066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242028/"
    handle:    "nm0242028"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://loisduncan.arquettes.com"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lois Duncan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lois Duncan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дункан, Лоис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lois Duncan"
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    title: "Лоїс Дункан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump