# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-allen-st-john
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:47:09.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-allen-st-john"
name: "J. Allen St. John"
slug: "j-allen-st-john"
description: "James Allen St. John was an American author, artist and illustrator. He is especially remembered for his illustrations for the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, although he illustrated works of many types. He taught at the Chicago Art Institute and with the American Academy of Art. He is considered by many to be 'The Godfather of Modern Fantasy Art'. His most famous disciples were Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta, the latter of whom has also been styled as the grandmaster of the Genre."
tagline: "; American author, artist and illustrator (1872–1957)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Face_in_the_Pool_frontispiece.jpg/330px-Face_in_the_Pool_frontispiece.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1872-10-01"
deathDate: "1957-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.29
  momentum:             10.41666666666667
  historical:           5.679122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "J. Allen St. John"
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    title: "جاي ألين سانت جون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاى الين سانت جون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джеймс Аллен Сент-Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジェームズ・アレン・セント＝ジョン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сент-Джон, Джеймс"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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