# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-howard-lawson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:11:05.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-howard-lawson"
name: "John Howard Lawson"
slug: "john-howard-lawson"
description: "John Howard Lawson was an American playwright, screenwriter, arts critic, and cultural historian. After enjoying a relatively successful career writing plays that were staged on and off Broadway in the 1920s and '30s, Lawson relocated to Hollywood and began working in the motion picture industry. In 1933, he helped to organize the Screen Writers Guild and became its first president. In the ensuing years, he was credited with a number of notable screenplays including Blockade (1938), Action in the North Atlantic (1943), and Counter-Attack (1945)."
tagline: "American dramatist (1894–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Howard_Lawson_(1894%E2%80%931977).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-09-25"
deathDate: "1977-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.31415066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0493251"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump