# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-j-sullivan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:07:36.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-j-sullivan"
name: "Michael J. Sullivan"
slug: "michael-j-sullivan"
description: "Michael J. Sullivan is an American writer of epic fantasy and science fiction, best known for his debut series The Riyria Revelations, which has been translated into fourteen languages. In 2012 io9 named him one of the \"Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors\". His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, Georgian, Bulgarian, Russian, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish."
tagline: "American writer (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_sullivan_portrait_200_300.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.044794666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://michaelsullivan-author.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a151b729-b0a7-48c6-8103-95a633be2c0e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مايكل جي. سوليفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Майкъл Дж. Съливан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sullivan_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Michael J. Sullivan (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sullivan_(author)"
    title: "Michael J. Sullivan (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sullivan_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Michael J. Sullivan (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98"
    title: "მაიკლ სალივანი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sullivan_(pisarz)"
    title: "Michael J. Sullivan (pisarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%94%D0%B6._(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Салливан, Майкл Дж. (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6831515"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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