# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rebecca-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:56:47.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rebecca-brown"
name: "Rebecca Brown"
slug: "rebecca-brown"
description: "Rebecca Brown is an American novelist, essayist, playwright, artist, and professor. She was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and served as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington from 2005 to 2009. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, which won a Lambda Literary Award in 1994. Rebecca Brown is an Emeritus faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and is also a multi-media artist whose work has been displayed in galleries such as the Frye Art Museum."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             0.4215618521078093
  historical:           5.720954666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.uwb.edu/ias/faculty-and-staff/rebecca-brown"
sources:
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Brown_(moodi%C9%97o)"
    title: "Rebecca Brown (moodiɗo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريبيكا براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Brown_(author)"
    title: "Rebecca Brown (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Brown"
    title: "Rebecca Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "レベッカ・ブラウン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Brown"
    title: "Rebecca Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3110553"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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