# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-darnton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:54:10.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-darnton"
name: "John Darnton"
slug: "john-darnton"
description: "John Darnton is an American journalist who wrote for the New York Times. He is a two-time winner of the Polk Award, of which he is now the curator, and the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He also moonlights as a novelist, writing scientific and medical thrillers."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1941-11-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.011052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2855225/"
    handle:    "nm2855225"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Darnton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون دارنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darnton"
    title: "John Darnton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darnton"
    title: "John Darnton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darnton"
    title: "John Darnton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darnton"
    title: "John Darnton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darnton"
    title: "John Darnton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Дарнтон, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699753"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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