# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-bass
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:15.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-bass"
name: "Rick Bass"
slug: "rick-bass"
description: "Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist. He has a Bachelor of Science in geology with a focus in Wildlife from Utah State University. Right after he graduated, he interned for one year as a Wildlife Biologist at the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Arkansas. He then went onto working as an oil and gas geologist and consultant before becoming a writer and teacher. He has worked across the United States at various universities: University of Texas at Austin, Beloit College, University of Montana, Pacific University, Montana State University, Iowa State University. He teaches at the Stonecoast MFA low-residency program in Maine. He has done many workshops and lectures on writing and wildlife throughout his career. Texas Tech University, Texas State University, and University of Texas at Austin have collections of his written work."
tagline: "Fiction writer, nature writer, activist (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Bass_2025_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.16
  momentum:             2.359154929577465
  historical:           7.037908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rickbass.net"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rick_Bass"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ريك باس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bass"
    title: "Rick Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bass"
    title: "Rick Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bass"
    title: "Rick Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bass"
    title: "Rick Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "رک باس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431527"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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