# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-pope-osborne
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:40:38.524Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-pope-osborne"
name: "Mary Pope Osborne"
slug: "mary-pope-osborne"
description: "Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will."
tagline: "American children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_pope_osborne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump