# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-w-dower
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:02:48.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-w-dower"
name: "John W. Dower"
slug: "john-w-dower"
description: "John W. Dower is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association."
tagline: "American historian (born 1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/John_W._Dower_2005.jpg/330px-John_W._Dower_2005.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           9.65868
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump