# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-sawyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:46.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-sawyer"
name: "Ruth Sawyer"
slug: "ruth-sawyer"
description: "Ruth Sawyer was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She is best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature."
tagline: "American children's writer and storyteller"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Sawyer_1921.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1880-08-05"
deathDate: "1970-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             1.533704390847248
  historical:           4.810764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "روث سوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "روث سوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sawyer"
    title: "Ruth Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sawyer"
    title: "Ruth Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sawyer"
    title: "Ruth Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4977173"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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