# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roxane-gay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:58:10.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roxane-gay"
name: "Roxane Gay"
slug: "roxane-gay"
description: "Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017)."
tagline: "American writer"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1974-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "roxanegay74"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump