# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-r-harlan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:48:19.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-r-harlan"
name: "Louis R. Harlan"
slug: "louis-r-harlan"
description: "Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materials. He won the Bancroft Prize in 1973 and 1984, once for each volume, and the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for the second volume."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-07-13"
deathDate: "2010-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_R._Harlan"
    title: "Louis R. Harlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B1._%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لويس ر. هارلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B1._%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لويس ر. هارلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A6%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D8%B1_%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "لوئس آر ہارلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_R._Harlan"
    title: "Louis R. Harlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Харлан, Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6688019"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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