# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owen-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:53:23.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owen-johnson"
name: "Owen Johnson"
slug: "owen-johnson"
description: "Owen McMahon Johnson was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover. The \"Lawrenceville Stories\", set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling's Stalky & Co. A 1950 film, The Happy Years, and a 1987 PBS mini-series, The Lawrenceville Stories, were based on them."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer (1878–1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Owen_Johnson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1878-08-27"
deathDate: "1952-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.142585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425924/"
    handle:    "nm0425924"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Owen_Johnson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "أوين جونسون (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "اوين جونسون (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Johnson_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Owen Johnson (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Johnson_(writer)"
    title: "Owen Johnson (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Johnson"
    title: "Owen Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1598125"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2733175"
    title: "Owen Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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