# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-dessen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:45.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-dessen"
name: "Sarah Dessen"
slug: "sarah-dessen"
description: "Sarah Dessen is an American novelist known for her contributions to young adult fiction. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996, and has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work, and two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sarah_Dessen_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.28
  momentum:             3.765883711975356
  historical:           14.2574
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/sarahdessen"
    handle:    "sarahdessen"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/sdessen/"
    handle:    "sdessen"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1181077/"
    handle:    "nm1181077"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sarahdessen.com/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen"
    title: "Sarah Dessen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen"
    title: "Sarah Dessen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen"
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    title: "Дессен, Сара"
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    title: "సారా డెస్సెన్"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1469571"
    title: "Sarah Dessen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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