# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-bell-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:42:30.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-bell-wright"
name: "Harold Bell Wright"
slug: "harold-bell-wright"
description: "Harold Bell Wright was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and many magazine articles. More than 15 movies were made or claimed to be made from Wright's stories, including Gary Cooper's first major movie, The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and the John Wayne film The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)."
tagline: "American writer (1872–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_Bell_Wright%2C_Los_Angeles_Daily_News_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1872-05-04"
deathDate: "1944-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.76
  momentum:             13.12520740691578
  historical:           4.641436000000001
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942428/"
    handle:    "nm0942428"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "هارولد بيل رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bell_Wright"
    title: "Harold Bell Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bell_Wright"
    title: "Harold Bell Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BE%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "ഹരോൾഡ് ബെൽ റൈറ്റ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5660079"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1097474"
    title: "Harold Bell Wright"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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