# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-campbell
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:03.695Z

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name: "Joseph Campbell"
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description: "Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump