# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-ruiz-de-burton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:44:46.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-ruiz-de-burton"
name: "María Ruiz de Burton"
slug: "maria-ruiz-de-burton"
description: "María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was a Californio author and intellectual, best known as the first female Mexican-American writer to be published in English. During her career, she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It? (1872) and The Squatter and the Don (1885); and one play: Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken From Cervantes' Novel of That Name (1876)."
tagline: "Mexican-American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mar%C3%ADa_Ruiz_de_Burton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-07-03"
deathDate: "1895-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.144709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ماریا روئز ڈی برٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريا رويز دي بورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B2_%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ماریا روئیز دی بورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Ruiz_de_Burton"
    title: "María Ruiz de Burton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Ruiz_de_Burton"
    title: "María Ruiz de Burton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Ruiz_de_Burton"
    title: "María Ruiz de Burton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Ruiz_de_Burton"
    title: "María Ruiz de Burton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6782113"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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