# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rollin-ridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:55:44.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rollin-ridge"
name: "John Rollin Ridge"
slug: "john-rollin-ridge"
description: "John Rollin Ridge, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. After moving to California in 1850, he began to write. He is known for his novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854), based on a notorious outlaw of the period."
tagline: "Cherokee novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnRollinRidge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1827-03-19"
deathDate: "1867-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.350865333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Rollin Ridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون رولين ريدج"
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    title: "جون رولين ريدج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge"
    title: "John Rollin Ridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge"
    title: "John Rollin Ridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge"
    title: "John Rollin Ridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge"
    title: "John Rollin Ridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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