# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-a-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:48:33.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-a-foster"
name: "M. A. Foster"
slug: "m-a-foster"
description: "Michael Anthony Foster was an American science fiction writer from Greensboro, North Carolina. He spent over sixteen years as a captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force."
tagline: "American writer (1939–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-07-02"
deathDate: "2020-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           5.671058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._Foster"
    title: "M. A. Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%85._%D8%A3._%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "إم. أ. فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Anthony_Foster"
    title: "Michael Anthony Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%95%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Майкл Ентоні Фостер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._Foster"
    title: "M. A. Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Anthony_Foster"
    title: "Michael Anthony Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1669902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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