# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bellairs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:00.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bellairs"
name: "John Bellairs"
slug: "john-bellairs"
description: "John Anthony Bellairs was an American author best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Most of his books were illustrated by Edward Gorey. At the time of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in hard cover and more than a million and a half copies in paperback."
tagline: "American novelist, primarily speculative fiction for children (1938–1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Anthony_Bellairs.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-01-17"
deathDate: "1991-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.39
  momentum:             4.562737642585551
  historical:           10.36167066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068662/"
    handle:    "nm0068662"
sources:
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    title: "John Bellairs"
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    title: "John Bellairs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellairs"
    title: "John Bellairs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellairs"
    title: "John Bellairs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BD"
    title: "Ջոն Բելերս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Bellairs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Беллэрс, Джон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "John Bellairs"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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