# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nell-zink
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:21.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nell-zink"
name: "Nell Zink"
slug: "nell-zink"
description: "Helen \"Nell\" Louise Zink is an American writer living in Germany. After being a long term penpal of Avner Shats, she came to prominence in her fifties with the help of Jonathan Franzen and her novel, Mislaid, was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her debut The Wallcreeper was released in the United States by the independent press Dorothy and named one of 100 notable books of 2014 by The New York Times, as was Mislaid. Zink then released Nicotine, Private Novelist, and Doxology through Ecco Press. In 2022 she published Avalon, also a New York Times notable book, with Alfred A. Knopf. In 2025 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship."
tagline: "American writer and media scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nell_Zink_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.86
  momentum:             12.29508196721311
  historical:           4.829592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "نيل زينك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Zink"
    title: "Nell Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Zink"
    title: "Nell Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Zink"
    title: "Nell Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Zink"
    title: "Nell Zink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19668352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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