# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-kress
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:47:58.776Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-kress"
name: "Nancy Kress"
slug: "nancy-kress"
description: "Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion Workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany."
tagline: "American science fiction writer (1948-)"
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birthDate: "1948-01-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump