# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-boykin-chesnut
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:56:48.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-boykin-chesnut"
name: "Mary Boykin Chesnut"
slug: "mary-boykin-chesnut"
description: "Mary Boykin Chesnut was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a \"vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle.\" She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern planter society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to James Chesnut Jr., a lawyer who served as a United States senator and officer in the Confederate States Army."
tagline: "American writer (1823-1886)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Chesnut.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1823-03-31"
deathDate: "1886-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.15
  momentum:             1.48911465892598
  historical:           10.87582133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ماري بويكن تشيسنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A1"
    title: "مارى بويكين كستناء"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Boykin Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Boykin Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Boykin Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Boykin Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "メアリー・チェスナット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chesnut"
    title: "Mary Chesnut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%DA%A9%D9%86_%DA%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D9%B9"
    title: "میری بوائکن چیسنوٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%9B%E4%B8%BD%C2%B7%E5%8D%9A%E4%BC%8A%E9%87%91%C2%B7%E5%88%87%E6%96%AF%E7%BA%B3%E7%89%B9"
    title: "玛丽·博伊金·切斯纳特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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