# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-marquis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:37:47.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-marquis"
name: "Don Marquis"
slug: "don-marquis"
description: "Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, Archy being a supposed author of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, \"the Old Soak,\" who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent film (1926) and a talkie (1937)."
tagline: "American humorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Marquis_LCCN2014699851_(retouched).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1878-07-29"
deathDate: "1937-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.23312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549905/"
    handle:    "nm0549905"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.donmarquis.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دون ماركيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون ماركيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Robert_Perry_Marquis"
    title: "Donald Robert Perry Marquis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Don Marquis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Don Marquis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Don Marquis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Don Marquis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikiquote.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://be.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%81"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Don_Marquis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1435346"
    title: "Don Marquis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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