# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-herbert-donald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:41:03.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-herbert-donald"
name: "David Herbert Donald"
slug: "david-herbert-donald"
description: "David Herbert Donald was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for books about Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South."
tagline: "American historian of the American Civil War"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Herbert_Donald.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-10-01"
deathDate: "2009-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Herbert Donald"
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    title: "David Herbert Donald"
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    title: "David Herbert Donald"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Donald"
    title: "David Donald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Herbert_Donald"
    title: "David Herbert Donald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Herbert Donald"
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    title: "דייוויד הרברט דונלד"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump