# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rowe-townsend
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:50:34.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rowe-townsend"
name: "John Rowe Townsend"
slug: "john-rowe-townsend"
description: "John Rowe Townsend was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series, Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature (1965), the definitive work of its time on the subject. \nIt was greatly expanded for the first revised edition as Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's Literature (1974) and updated for its 2nd to 4th revised editions in 1983, 1987, and 1990 – the last, \"A survey of imaginative writing, including poetry and picture books, accompanied by a bibliography of works on children's literature and illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989.\"."
tagline: "British children's writer and literary critic (1922-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-05-22"
deathDate: "2014-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.65830214982757
  historical:           3.076206666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "জন রো টাউনসেন্ড"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowe_Townsend"
    title: "John Rowe Townsend"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowe_Townsend"
    title: "John Rowe Townsend"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations