# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tommy-orange
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:15.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tommy-orange"
name: "Tommy Orange"
slug: "tommy-orange"
description: "Tommy Orange is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California. His first book, There There (2018), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received the 2019 American Book Award. In October 2025, Orange was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tommy_Orange_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1982-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.019234666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Томи Ориндж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Orange"
    title: "Tommy Orange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Orange"
    title: "Tommy Orange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Orange"
    title: "Tommy Orange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Orange"
    title: "Tommy Orange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8"
    title: "トミー・オレンジ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Ориндж, Томми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Orange"
    title: "Tommy Orange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63341394"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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