# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-shea
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:51:04.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-shea"
name: "Michael Shea"
slug: "michael-shea"
description: "Michael Shea was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author. His novel Nifft the Lean won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella Growlimb."
tagline: "Writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Shea.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-07-03"
deathDate: "2014-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             0.2139917695473251
  historical:           9.444676000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelsheaauthor.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Shea"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%84%D9%81)"
    title: "مايكل شي (مؤلف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "مايكل شى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shea_(Autor)"
    title: "Michael Shea (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shea_(American_author)"
    title: "Michael Shea (American author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shea_(auteur)"
    title: "Michael Shea (auteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shea_(scrittore)"
    title: "Michael Shea (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4"
    title: "マイクル・シェイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Ши, Майкл (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shea_(writer)"
    title: "Michael Shea (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Shea"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834335"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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