# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-klay
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:04:01.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-klay"
name: "Phil Klay"
slug: "phil-klay"
description: "Phil Klay is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, Redeployment. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, Missionaries, was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year as well as one of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Klay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1983"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.692406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.philklay.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Klay"
    title: "Phil Klay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A_(%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A)"
    title: "فيل كلاي (فيليب كلاي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Klay"
    title: "Phil Klay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Klay"
    title: "Phil Klay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Klay"
    title: "Phil Klay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Klay"
    title: "Phil Klay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18026907"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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