# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-abish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:48:23.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-abish"
name: "Walter Abish"
slug: "walter-abish"
description: "Walter Abish was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. He was conferred the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship six years later."
tagline: "Austrian-American author"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Walter_Abish.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-12-24"
deathDate: "2022-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.05825242718446602
  historical:           17.35198133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump