# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-owens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:52:37.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-owens"
name: "Louis Owens"
slug: "louis-owens"
description: "Louis Dean Owens was a novelist and scholar who claimed Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish-American descent. He is known for a series of Native-themed mystery novels and for his contributions to the then-fledgling field of Native American Studies. He was also a professor of English and Native American studies, and frequently contributed articles, literary criticism and reviews to periodicals. Owens died by suicide in 2002."
tagline: "American author"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-07-18"
deathDate: "2002-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.98
  momentum:             0.186046511627907
  historical:           5.474550666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Owens"
    title: "Louis Owens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لويس أوينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Owens"
    title: "Louis Owens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A6%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "لوئس اوونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Owens"
    title: "Louis Owens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Owens"
    title: "Louis Owens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6687926"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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