# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madeleine-blais
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:26:08.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madeleine-blais"
name: "Madeleine Blais"
slug: "madeleine-blais"
description: "Madeleine Blais is an American journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department. As a reporter for the Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for \"Zepp's Last Stand\", a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at The Boston Globe (1971–1972), The Trenton Times (1974–1976) and the Miami Herald (1979–1987). She has also published articles in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Northeast Magazine in the Hartford Courant, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Nieman Reports, the Detroit Free Press and the San Jose Mercury News. She is from Amherst, Massachusetts."
tagline: "American journalist, professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madeleine_Blais.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.17
  momentum:             9.473684210526315
  historical:           2.406624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "مادلين بليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Blais"
    title: "Madeleine Blais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12053172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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