# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owen-wister
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:42:04.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owen-wister"
name: "Owen Wister"
slug: "owen-wister"
description: "Owen Wister was an American writer. His novel The Virginian, published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputation as the \"father of Western fiction.\" He was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. The Western Writers of America renamed the Saddleman Award for best book of the year to the Owen Wister Award, and Mount Wister in Wyoming was named in his honor."
tagline: "American writer (1860–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Owen_Wister.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1860-07-14"
deathDate: "1938-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.24
  momentum:             1.9875
  historical:           14.73571466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936644/"
    handle:    "nm0936644"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "أوين ويستر"
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    title: "Owen Wister"
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    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister"
    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister"
    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister"
    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister"
    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister"
    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уистер, Оуэн"
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    title: "Owen Wister"
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    title: "Owen Wister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump