# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sherrilyn-kenyon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:20:49.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sherrilyn-kenyon"
name: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
slug: "sherrilyn-kenyon"
description: "Sherrilyn Kenyon is an American writer. Under her former married name, she wrote both urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is best known for her Dark Hunter series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she writes historical fiction with paranormal elements. Kenyon's novels have sold over 70 million copies in print in over 100 countries. Under both names, her books have appeared at the top of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today lists, and they are frequent bestsellers in Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sherrilyn_Kenyon_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             2.605790645879733
  historical:           14.070524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5343188/"
    handle:    "nm5343188"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кеньон, Шеррилин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherrilyn Kenyon"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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