# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-brautigan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:45.478Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-brautigan"
name: "Richard Brautigan"
slug: "richard-brautigan"
description: "Richard Gary Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and ten books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967), In Watermelon Sugar (1968), and The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)."
tagline: "American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1935–1984)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1935-01-30"
deathDate: "1984-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump