# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomi-adeyemi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:28:06.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomi-adeyemi"
name: "Tomi Adeyemi"
slug: "tomi-adeyemi"
description: "Tomi Adeyemi is an American writer and creative writing coach. She is best known for her novel Children of Blood and Bone, the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, which debuted #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List, and won the 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize, and the 2019 Hugo Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. In 2019, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and in 2020, she was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2020 in the \"Pioneers\" category. In 2022, Paramount Pictures was developing Children of Blood and Bone into a major motion picture with Gina Prince-Bythewood attached to direct."
tagline: "Nigerian-American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NBF2024-tomi-adeyemi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1993-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.15444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "tomi_adeyemi"
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    handle:    "tomiadeyemi"
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    handle:    "nm8922371"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tomiadeyemi.com"
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    title: "Tomi Adeyemi"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump