# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lester-dent
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:46.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lester-dent"
name: "Lester Dent"
slug: "lester-dent"
description: "Lester Dent was an American pulp-fiction writer, best known as the creator and main writer of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage. The 159 Doc Savage novels that Dent wrote over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson."
tagline: "American writer (1904–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lester_Dent.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-10-12"
deathDate: "1959-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.691434666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0732077/"
    handle:    "nm0732077"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Dent"
    title: "Lester Dent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ليستير دنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Dent"
    title: "Lester Dent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1_%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%B9"
    title: "لیسٹر ڈینٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Dent"
    title: "Lester Dent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88"
    title: "レスター・デント"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3236788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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