# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morrison-heady
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:35:19.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morrison-heady"
name: "Morrison Heady"
slug: "morrison-heady"
description: "James Morrison Heady was an American deafblind author. Heady published multiple volumes of children's books and poetry and was frequently referred to by the contemporary press as the \"Blind Bard of Kentucky\". He was one of the first advocates for books for the blind in the United States and he invented several devices to facilitate communication and improve quality of life for deaf and blind people."
tagline: "American deafblind author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morrison_Heady_portrait_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1829-07-19"
deathDate: "1915-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Heady"
    title: "Morrison Heady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Heady"
    title: "Morrison Heady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Heady"
    title: "Morrison Heady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Heady"
    title: "Morrison Heady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86_%DB%81%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C"
    title: "موریسن ہیڈی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94649819"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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