# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-sheckley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:12:43.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-sheckley"
name: "Robert Sheckley"
slug: "robert-sheckley"
description: "Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical."
tagline: "American writer (1928–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Sheckley_in_the_mid-1990s.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-07-16"
deathDate: "2005-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "https://sheckley.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump