# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharon-draper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:30:20.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharon-draper"
name: "Sharon Draper"
slug: "sharon-draper"
description: "Sharon Mills Draper is an American children's writer, professional educator, and the 1997 National Teacher of the Year. She is a two-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books about the young and adolescent African-American experience. She is known for her Hazelwood and Jericho series, Copper Sun, Double Dutch, Out of My Mind and Romiette and Julio."
tagline: "American children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharon_Draper.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.36
  momentum:             7.199999999999999
  historical:           11.041652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "sharonmdraper"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13632166/"
    handle:    "nm13632166"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://sharondraper.com"
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    title: "シャロン・ドレーパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "შერონ დრეიპერი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шерон М. Дрейпер"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump