# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-boyden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:36:33.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-boyden"
name: "Joseph Boyden"
slug: "joseph-boyden"
description: "Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for writing about First Nations culture. Three Day Road, a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, was inspired by Ojibwa Francis Pegahmagabow, the legendary First World War sniper. Joseph Boyden's second novel, Through Black Spruce, follows the story of Will, son of one of the characters in Three Day Road. The third novel in the Bird family trilogy was published in 2013 as The Orenda."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Boyden_-_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_-_2013_(DanH-2116)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.18
  momentum:             3.224299065420561
  historical:           9.471028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "জোসেফ বয়েডেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Boyden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزف بویدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Boyden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'וזף בוידן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Boyden"
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    title: "Joseph Boyden"
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    title: "Joseph Boyden"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump