# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-forster
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:19:49.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-forster"
name: "John Forster"
slug: "john-forster"
description: "John Forster was an English writer and biographer. He was best known for publishing The Life of Charles Dickens (1872), which was the first biography published of Charles Dickens after his death in 1870. He was a personal friend of Dickens and part of Dickens's social circle, which included William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and Hans Christian Andersen."
tagline: "English biographer and critic (1812–1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Forster_(1812-1876)_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1812-04-02"
deathDate: "1876-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.087474666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Forster_(biographer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "جون فورستير (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forster_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "John Forster (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forster_(biographer)"
    title: "John Forster (biographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forster"
    title: "John Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forster"
    title: "John Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forster"
    title: "John Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Форстер, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forster"
    title: "John Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951193"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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