# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-gay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:39:33.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-gay"
name: "Ruth Gay"
slug: "ruth-gay"
description: "Ruth Gay was an American writer whose work concerned Jewish life. She won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction for Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America (1996)."
tagline: "Jewish writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-10-19"
deathDate: "2006-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473218666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gay"
    title: "Ruth Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "روث غاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "روث جاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gay"
    title: "Ruth Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gay"
    title: "Ruth Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gay"
    title: "Ruth Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17050226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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