# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-rooke
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:49:15.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-rooke"
name: "Leon Rooke"
slug: "leon-rooke"
description: "Leon Rooke, CM is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Rooke_-_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_-_2013_(DanH-2134)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.24
  momentum:             10.5
  historical:           6.336825333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.leonrooke.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leon_Rooke"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "ليون روك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "ليون روك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rooke"
    title: "Leon Rooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rooke"
    title: "Leon Rooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rooke"
    title: "Leon Rooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rooke"
    title: "Leon Rooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969099"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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