# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sanders
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:06.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sanders"
name: "William Sanders"
slug: "william-sanders"
description: "William Sanders was an American speculative fiction writer, primarily noted for his alternate history short fiction, and was the senior editor of the online science fiction magazine Helix SF. He twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and was a finalist for other honors including the Nebula Award."
tagline: "American speculative fiction writer and editor (1942-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-04-28"
deathDate: "2017-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.93
  momentum:             0.2666666666666667
  historical:           5.472210666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sff.net/people/sanders/index.htp"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sanders_(writer)"
    title: "William Sanders (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "وليم ساندرز (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ويليام ساندرز (كاتب خيال علمى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Вільям Сендерс (письменник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sanders"
    title: "William Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Сандерс, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4470071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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