# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-landon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:05:55.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-landon"
name: "Margaret Landon"
slug: "margaret-landon"
description: "Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages. In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book. A later work, Never Dies the Dream, appeared in 1949."
tagline: "American writer, missionary (1903–1993)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1903-09-07"
deathDate: "1993-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             28.26301567285174
  historical:           14.2351
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0484933"
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump