# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-meriwether
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:03:54.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-meriwether"
name: "Louise Meriwether"
slug: "louise-meriwether"
description: "Louise Meriwether was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem, New York City, during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance."
tagline: "American novelist (1923–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Louise_Meriwether_nonfree.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-05-08"
deathDate: "2023-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.4
  momentum:             6.923076923076924
  historical:           7.008136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether"
    title: "Louise Meriwether"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B0%D8%B1"
    title: "لويز ميريويذر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B0%D8%B1"
    title: "لويز ميريويذر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether"
    title: "Louise Meriwether"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether"
    title: "Louise Meriwether"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether"
    title: "Louise Meriwether"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether"
    title: "Louise Meriwether"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether"
    title: "Louise Meriwether"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6688853"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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