# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-snow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:49:19.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-snow"
name: "Edgar Snow"
slug: "edgar-snow"
description: "Edgar Parks Snow was an American journalist known for his books and articles on communism in China and the Chinese Communist Revolution. He was the first Western journalist to give an account of the history of the Chinese Communist Party following the Long March, and he was also the first Western journalist to interview many of its leaders, including Mao Zedong. He is best known for his book Red Star Over China (1937), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s."
tagline: "American journalist (1905–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1938_Snow_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1905-07-17"
deathDate: "1972-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           21.494156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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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