# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mercedes-lackey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:02:47.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mercedes-lackey"
name: "Mercedes Lackey"
slug: "mercedes-lackey"
description: "Mercedes Ritchie Lackey is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mercedes_Lackey_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.200376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mercedeslackey"
    handle:    "mercedeslackey"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MercedesLackey"
    handle:    "MercedesLackey"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12815025/"
    handle:    "nm12815025"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mercedeslackey.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "መርሴደስ ላኪ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميرسيديس لاكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackeyov%C3%A1"
    title: "Mercedes Lackeyová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マーセデス・ラッキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80"
    title: "మెర్సిడెస్ లాకీ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мерседес Лекі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222518"
    title: "Mercedes Lackey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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