# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-catton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:18:02.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-catton"
name: "Bruce Catton"
slug: "bruce-catton"
description: "Charles Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist who wrote books concerning the American Civil War. As a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring interesting characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses. His books were well researched and included footnotes. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1954 for his book A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), a study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia and third book in his Army of the Potomac trilogy."
tagline: "American historian and journalist (1899-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Catton_1960s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1899-10-09"
deathDate: "1978-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.3806870937790158
  historical:           8.613829333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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