# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beatrice-sparks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:26.278Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/beatrice-sparks"
name: "Beatrice Sparks"
slug: "beatrice-sparks"
description: "Beatrice Sparks, born Beatrice Ruby Mathews was an American writer and hoaxer. She was an alleged Mormon youth counselor; more famously, she became an author and serial con artist, known primarily for producing books purporting to be the \"real diaries\" of troubled teenagers. The books deal with topical issues such as drug abuse, Satanism, teenage pregnancy, and AIDS, and are presented as cautionary tales."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-01-15"
deathDate: "2012-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.87
  momentum:             17.47728783514292
  historical:           5.669382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Sparks"
    title: "Beatrice Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Sparks"
    title: "Beatrice Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "بيترس سباركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "بیٹریس اسپارکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Sparks"
    title: "Beatrice Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Sparks"
    title: "Beatrice Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4877197"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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