# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-monroe-sheldon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:59:48.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-monroe-sheldon"
name: "Charles Monroe Sheldon"
slug: "charles-monroe-sheldon"
description: "Charles Monroe Sheldon was an American Congregationalist minister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement. His 1896 novel In His Steps introduced the principle \"What would Jesus do?\", which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th century and enjoyed a revival almost one hundred years later. The stretch of US-24 on the north side of Topeka, Kansas, between US-75 and K-4 is named the \"Charles Sheldon Trafficway\" in his honor."
tagline: "American writer (1857-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_M_Sheldon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1857-02-26"
deathDate: "1946-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           6.356049333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheldon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز شيلدون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sheldon"
    title: "Charles Sheldon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B0%B0%EC%8A%A4_%EC%85%B8%EB%8D%98"
    title: "찰스 셸던"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sheldon"
    title: "Charles Sheldon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7_(%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Шелдон, Чарльз (священник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%88%D9%86"
    title: "چارلس شیلڈن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5082480"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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