# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randall-kenan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:53:29.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randall-kenan"
name: "Randall Kenan"
slug: "randall-kenan"
description: "Randall Kenan - American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992, and The Fire This Time. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-03-12"
deathDate: "2020-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.477286666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan"
    title: "Randall Kenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "راندال كينان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan"
    title: "Randall Kenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan"
    title: "Randall Kenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan"
    title: "Randall Kenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan"
    title: "Randall Kenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3930018"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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