# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lydia-davis
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:55:44.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lydia-davis"
name: "Lydia Davis"
slug: "lydia-davis"
description: "Lydia Davis is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, poet, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes very short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert."
tagline: "American writer (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lydia_Davis_at_Kelly_Writers_House_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-07-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.908124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  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