# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-gaitskill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:18:48.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-gaitskill"
name: "Mary Gaitskill"
slug: "mary-gaitskill"
description: "Mary Gaitskill is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Her books include the short story collection Bad Behavior (1988) and Veronica (2005), which was nominated for both the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction."
tagline: "American writer (b. 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Gaitskill_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-11-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.728133807009885
  historical:           10.02096266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1122344/"
    handle:    "nm1122344"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump