# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mat-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:03:27.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mat-johnson"
name: "Mat Johnson"
slug: "mat-johnson"
description: "Mat Johnson is an American fiction writer who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by United States Artists."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mat_johnson_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.56
  momentum:             8.510638297872342
  historical:           6.355041333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mat_johnson"
    handle:    "mat_johnson"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/matjohnsonpage"
    handle:    "matjohnsonpage"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.matjohnson.info"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Johnson"
    title: "Mat Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "مات جونسون (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B5_%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "مات جونسون (كاتب قصص مصوره من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Johnson"
    title: "Mat Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Johnson"
    title: "Mat Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Johnson"
    title: "Mat Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Johnson"
    title: "Mat Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6785827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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