# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharon-kay-penman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:59.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharon-kay-penman"
name: "Sharon Kay Penman"
slug: "sharon-kay-penman"
description: "Sharon Kay Penman was an American historical novelist, published in the UK as Sharon Penman. She was best known for the Welsh Princes Trilogy and the Plantagenet series. In addition, she wrote four medieval mysteries, the first of which, The Queen's Man, was a finalist in 1996 for the Best First Mystery Edgar Award."
tagline: "American historical novelist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Sharon_Kay_Penman.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-08-13"
deathDate: "2021-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.4
  momentum:             4.534440273839378
  historical:           8.214369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "شارون كاى بنمان"
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    title: "Sharon Kay Penman"
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    title: "Sharon Kay Penman"
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    title: "Sharon Kay Penman"
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    title: "Пенман, Шэрон Кей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Kay_Penman"
    title: "Sharon Kay Penman"
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    title: "Sharon Kay Penman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump