# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-t-vollmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:20:51.307Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-t-vollmann"
name: "William T. Vollmann"
slug: "william-t-vollmann"
description: "William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Europe Central."
tagline: "Novelist, short story writer, essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_T._Vollmann_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           14.096496
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump