# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melville-davisson-post
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:16:24.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melville-davisson-post"
name: "Melville Davisson Post"
slug: "melville-davisson-post"
description: "Melville Davisson Post was an American writer, born in Harrison County, West Virginia. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print, and many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of \"the finest mysteries ever written\"."
tagline: "American author (1869–1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melville_Post.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1869-04-19"
deathDate: "1930-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             0.1253918495297806
  historical:           4.811628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post"
    title: "Melville Davisson Post"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post"
    title: "Melville Davisson Post"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post"
    title: "Melville Davisson Post"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88"
    title: "メルヴィル・デイヴィスン・ポースト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1475826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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