# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-olen-butler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:22:28.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-olen-butler"
name: "Robert Olen Butler"
slug: "robert-olen-butler"
description: "Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993."
tagline: "American fiction writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Olen_Butler_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4433497536945812
  historical:           13.833732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3114654"
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    url:       "https://robertolenbutler.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump