# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-joh-rowland
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:13:35.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-joh-rowland"
name: "Laura Joh Rowland"
slug: "laura-joh-rowland"
description: "Laura Joh Rowland is an American detective/mystery author, known for her series of historical mystery novels featuring protagonist Sano Ichirō  set in feudal Japan, mostly in Edo during the late 17th century. She is also the author of two other historical mystery series, one featuring a fictionalized Charlotte Brontë, as well an ongoing series set in Victorian England around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders."
tagline: "American author"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.55
  momentum:             0.5664488017429193
  historical:           5.284126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Joh_Rowland"
    title: "Laura Joh Rowland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "لاورا چوه رولاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Лора Джо Роуланд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Joh_Rowlandov%C3%A1"
    title: "Laura Joh Rowlandová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Joh_Rowland"
    title: "Laura Joh Rowland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Роулэнд, Лора Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump