# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-frank-q20742162
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:51:25.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-frank-q20742162"
name: "Joseph Frank"
slug: "joseph-frank-q20742162"
description: "Joseph Frank was an American literary scholar and a leading expert on the life and work of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky is frequently cited among the major literary biographies of the 20th century. David Foster Wallace called him the \"definitive biographer of one of the best fiction writers ever.\" Gary Saul Morson wrote that Frank's five-volume biography \"is far and away the best comprehensive account of a Russian writer\"."
tagline: "American literary scholar (1918-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Joseph_Frank.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-10-06"
deathDate: "2013-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.701910666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Франк, Джозеф"
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    title: "Joseph Frank"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump