# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/padgett-powell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:22.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/padgett-powell"
name: "Padgett Powell"
slug: "padgett-powell"
description: "Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the National Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.21494
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://padgettpowell.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5aadcb1f-d610-4593-a3fe-df1153590b03"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بادجيت باول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell"
    title: "Padgett Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell"
    title: "Padgett Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell"
    title: "Padgett Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell"
    title: "Padgett Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB"
    title: "パジェット・パウエル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell"
    title: "Padgett Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123723"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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